| Upload much? Only 5 Mbps when the download speed is 10 times that? Sure, that would more than suffice the average user..but the average user isn't the one who's going to be signing up for a 50/5 speed tier. This 50/5 tier doesn't seem of any use other than just straight torrenting or massive downloads.
I've got a 15/15 FiOS tier myself and I used to have a 15/2 tier. I must say everytime I torrented, it was always my upload that would be maxed out and slowing down all other clients using the internet because there was little to no upload bandwidth left.
Obviously, this can be solved by restricting the amount of bandwidth alloted for torrenting..but it just never sat well with me. The fact that I had 15 Mbps available to me to download yet only 2 Mbps for uploading just doesn't seem right.
Sure, in general residential users download a lot more than they upload..but if companies like Comcast are going to put out extreme tiers that supplying large amounts of bandwidth to residents, I'd expect it to in both directions.
Of course supplying upload speed may be a problem if a company's network is overdue for an upgrade and they are already squeezing as much bandwidth as they possibly can out of it..but we wouldn't know of any companies that would follow such practices now would we... |
