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To everyone saying that I'm whining:
I get what you mean. It's not like I'm ungrateful, I'm really happy to be able to study in Germany and to have a comparably good internet connection. However, I think the major problem is the up/down ratio here. Unitymedia is able to boast about how they are Germany's fastest ISP (see also link to report above) with their 400 Mbit/s down speeds, however, they only supply customers with a maximum of 10 Mbit/s up speeds in that plan. That's not how it should work...
Oh, and I know that internet in Australia is even worse, and I can imagine how frustrating it would be for me with those speeds. @biscuit -
@ReverendLovejoy wow, that's pretty good for the price. May I ask what country you live in?
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@ryuji Norway.
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@ryuji it works like that because the internet has traditionally been used to consume rather than add content.
While many on devrant would love better upload speeds, we're the exception not the rule.
Joe public wouldn't accept slow Netflix in exchange for posting a photo on Facebook faster.
There's relatively very little demand for fast upload speeds and (I assume, networks aren't really my thing) providing a more equal upload download ratio would require different equipment / systems / programming. (if anyone knows how it really works please jump in and save my guessing ass lol) -
@osmarks Same here
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@biscuit Well, my current Unitymedia plan uses EuroDOCSIS 3.0 with 16 QAM256 downstream channels and 4 QAM16 upstream channels, meaning theoretical speeds of up to around 890 Mbit/s down and 123 Mbit/s up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
So, from what I could gather, there shouldn't be a lot of technical difficulties in improving upstream speeds. Of course, I'm no expert either, so please correct me if I just said some incorrect crap :) -
@biscuit you are mostly right. ADSL is by design (A is for asynchronous speed) intended for greater download than upload speeds. Where ADSL can deliver 10/1 Mbit at 4000 meters, a synchronous DSL line can deliver 1/1 at the same range.
With copper technology the limits are tied to the terminating hardware.
For cable and fiber networks upload speeds are stained to maximize available capacity for download and is mostly software-configurable -
@rebelt2i no, because on the moon you would have much greater speeds 😂
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@ReverendLovejoy so true and sad 😂
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@ReverendLovejoy thanks mate, didn't realise fibre was so easily configured. Though I guess the same rules apply... Unless all my neighbours want fast upload, I can't get it either?
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@biscuit depends on where the configurable equipment is ;)
using my local provider
It feels stupid to see a simple google dork returning the list of your mistakes.
Seriously....
Fucking piece of shit German internet man. Some of you might know that Germany probably has the shittiest internet in the EU. And by shitty, I don't mean the downstream speeds you can get (which is how most ISPs justify their crappy network), but the GODDAMN UPSTREAM SPEEDS.
See, I'm just a student, right? I don't run a fucking company or something like that. I don't need / can't afford a symmetrical gigabit connection. But I do a lot of stuff that requires a decent upstream connection.
Fucking Unitymedia (my ISP), if I already decide to buy the goddamn "business plan" (IPv6 & static adresses), at least supply me with some decent upstream speeds. PLEASE!
My current plan costs ~45€ a month for internet and TV (I don't watch, but my two other flat-mates do).
Internet speeds are 150 Mbit/s down and FUCKING 10 Mbit/s up! What??! What the hell am I supposed to do with only 10 Mbit/s?? I'm already completely exhausting the bandwidth and I'm not even done setting everything up! Fucking hell...
I was planning on getting their "upload package" to get at least 20 Mbit/s up – but they removed that option! IT'S GONE, PEOPLE! They said in an interview last year that "customers are not interested in higher upload speeds" and consequently removed that option. WHAT???
"You wanna have state-of-the-art downstream speeds of 400 Mbit/s? Here you go. Oh, our maximum limit of 10 Mbit/s upstream is not enough for you? TOO FUCKING BAD, NOTHING THAT WE CAN OFFER YOU!"
(Seriously though, the best customer internet plan is 400D & 10U)
Goddamn... in this day and age of things like cloud storage etc. even "normal" people definitely need higher upload speeds.
Man, this rant got so long, but I really wanted to get this out. This wasn't even everything though, maybe I'll make a separate rant to elaborate on other issues.
If you are interested, you might want to read up on the following report:
https://speedtest.net/reports/...
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