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Download / Upload speeds
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<PRE>Why are download and upload speeds substansially different? My broadband supplier is offering 2meg p/s download but only 256 k p/s upload? Thanks Matt</PRE>
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well there is no technical reason for this, its basically because most people want to download a lot of stuff or large files but rarely want to upload so much, so the ISP are just saving on bandwidth really,
For example If they can get 50 customers per cable at 2mb/2mb but 75 customers per cable at 2mb/256k then they can offer a cheaper service.
For example If they can get 50 customers per cable at 2mb/2mb but 75 customers per cable at 2mb/256k then they can offer a cheaper service.