Is your internet speed rigged? They want us consuming, not participating!

[strawberry@kbin.earth]

holy fuck what are you running, a space station?

[parpol@programming.dev]

He's slacking off at the office, obviously.

[sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world]

To add to this, DOCSIS (aka what cable modems use) basically has a finite number of "slots" related to the way they transmit on the line. The slots can be allocated towards either download or upload. Most ISPs weight it heavily towards download since that's what most users care about.

[bus_factor@lemmy.world]

The A in ADSL literally stands for "asymmetric". If you want matching upload you'd use SDSL. But generally you don't want that, because it sacrifices some download speed.

[slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org]

You’re trying to make some kind of societal statement based on your upload speed?

[zexks@lemmy.world]

Cox won’t give them out to residential addresses.

[drahardja@lemmy.world]

That’s just how modems are designed. DOCSIS consumer cable modems allocate about 10× download bandwidth vs upload. Many cable companies further cap upload speeds, probably because most people don’t demand that much. People aren’t complaining, so they aren’t giving more.

[30p87@feddit.org]

Bro can you host a server for me?

[calcopiritus@lemmy.world]

Just ask your ISP for more upload speed (and pay for it). It's a thing you can do.

[cypher@lemmy.world]

Try leaving a technically correct comment first.