Why is my upload speed so slow?

Question

according to speedtest.net, my download speed is 10.35 mbs which isnt bad, but my upload speed is only 0.80 mbs. why is it so slow?

Answer 1

99% of residential internet service is asynchronous, meaning, the download speed is much faster than the upload speed. Find out from your provider what your paying for. You probably have a 10/1 line. 10 Mbps down, and 1 Mbps up.

Answer 2

This is standard practice with home and SOHO Internet connections. My home connection is 50 mbps down / 2 mbps up. There are a number of reasons for this. These are a few of the major ones:



1. Cost. It's cheaper for your ISP to provision an asynchronous connection. These savings are passed on to you. My connection at work is 50 mbps both ways. I pay $50 at home but my employer pays $1,900. (Same ISP, by the way.)



2. Abuse. A slower connection hijacked by a bot does less damage.



3. Hardware requirements. The hardware necessary to support high speed synchronous connections is much more expensive than the cheap home and SOHO equipment. I paid $150 for the cable modem/router at the house. The one that we use at the office was close to $5,000.

Answer 3

it is slow because it is slow



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