said by sm5w2:> If you get fibeTV, you'll most likely get provisioned to ~ 35 / 10
Why is so much channel-capacity allocated to uploading? Isin't that wasted in the vast majority of use-cases? Why not shift the ratio to be more in favor of the download direction?
There's no such ratio in play when it comes to determining the speeds on downstream and upstream. You're implying (for example on 35/10) that there's some global cap on speed at 45Mbps and it has to be split between the two streams. That's not the case. Decreasing the upload doesn't allow the download to be increase.
They physically operate in different frequency bands. What determines speeds on either stream is frequency allocated, modulation and encapsulation. Why do you think ADSL~ADSL2+ was stuck at 800kbps~1Mbps for so long despite the downlooad kept increasing to 24Mbps?
The ratio of frequency allocated to download compared to upload on either DSL or Cable as always been heavily tilted to download.