| Upload speed is important to a lot of people, most of them just don't know what it's called. if my grandmother wants to send pictures of the family reunion she attended last week, she knows her AT&T connection takes a very long time to send them, she just isn't familar with the term "upload speed". there is a difference between knowing there is a problem and knowing what that problem is called. this is the cable/telco's fault. i've never seen an ISP talk about upload speed in any advertisement that i've come across. sure, time warner will give you 7MB down and claim it's 70 or 100 times faster than dial up, but they refuse to mention the paltry 512kb upload speed (if it embarasses them so much maybe they should do something about it). true competition is the only way this is going to change (legislation would also do this, but why would the legislator's do this when the lobbyists are adding to their bottom line). |
