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[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago (12 children)

I'll play. Without assuming where anyone is from, I'll add that the vast majority of US residential Internet connections, especially those in rural areas, are not only slower than they are in much of Europe (for example) but are commonly asymmetrical, too. Meaning even if someone has a gigabit connection, often it's only 1Gbps in one direction for Americans while the maximum upstream throughput may be closer to 50Mbps. Even a top-of-the-line, 5 figure Cisco or Juniper router can't do much to improve that situation for the end user when someone starts uploading large video files.

That said, fortunately or unfortunately (as our President says), incest isn't exclusive to Alabama,

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I believe every internet connection in the world is asymmetric. Most people download way more than they upload.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How you use it may be asymmetric but the actual connection being sold that way is garbage. I have 1200mbps down but only 35mbps up. If you’re downloading something over TCP(most stuff) then you need to send acknowledgment packets back to the server you’re downloading from. The faster you download the more upload you use as well. When your connection is as imbalanced as mine then almost any upload of even a moderate size is gonna make a huge dent in your download speed. I’m moving to a 3gbps symmetrical fiber line…

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

TCP ACK packages are tiny compared to the payload. I’m not sure this is really your issue.

Edit: To prove the point, this is me downloading a large file. The download to upload ratio is about 40:1.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My download speed to upload speed is about 34:1 (1200/35=34.286). They really don’t give you much more upload speed than what’s required for you to actually hit the advertised download speed.

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