Cable modem

[Kurva100]

Why does my cable isp cap my uploading speed to a quarter of my downloading speed ?

[lazy]

Simply put it uses less bandwidth. Basicly a long time before advent of napster, audiogalaxy et al, there was no need for fast upload, the taken ratio was that you upload about 1/4 of what you download (sending info to site etc) what cable companys aren't saying (except in small print) is you can't use FTP etc. servers on most lines, and capped uploads kinda help stop people from doing that. It's kind of like government, it is sucks, it's the way it is and you can pay people to get the rules changed (some cable providers, most politicians)

[DominicZ]

Hi, Also, for a few years now, modems have had the ability to compress / decompress data within the modem. As a lot of the data on the internet consists mainly of text, computers have developed compression algorithms (processes) to reduce the amount of data sent over the internet. The process of compressing the data is a lot more difficult than un-compressing it. Think of it like a puzzle, you have to put it together, which can take a while, then after the picture has been made, you may break it down again. But breaking it down is a lot easier than making it. Hope this helps, Regards, Dominic