Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why are upload speeds so SLOW?”.
So your local internet service provider promised you blazing fast Internet and, while they’ve delivered in the sense that you have no issues streaming, all the 4k Netflix, you want you’re still waiting around seemingly forever when you have to upload a video or a photo. So why is it that upload and download speeds are often so different, like you know, driving in the reverse direction during rush hour? So it’s like this visualize, the internet connection coming into your house as a pipe. That’S only so wide. In other words, there’s a limit to how much data it can carry at one time your ISP sections off the pipe to accommodate different services. For example, if you have a DSL connection, part of the pipe will be reserved for a phone service, while another part is dedicated to Internet data, and if you have cable or fiber that same pipe might also be carrying a cable TV signal.
You can learn much more about that right up here, but the gist of it is that service providers pull this off by using different frequencies for each type of data, so that your Apple music stream doesn’t conflict with your Charlie Brown Christmas special that you’re watching on Cable and because the pipe can only let so much data through at once, your provider has to make decisions about how much of it to dedicate to each service and in the case of internet, that section of the pipe actually gets further divided into upstream and downstream. Data, but even though there’s only so much space in the pipe, it’s not like the providers out there are hurting for bandwidth. For example, let’s say that your internet signal comes over a plain old, copper, cable, a relatively new standard called DOCSIS 3.1, which is a revision of the base DOCSIS standard that allows a broadband connection over old-school, cable TV pipes supports up to 10 gigabits per second downstream And one gigabit per second upstream by packing more data into each frequency, so there’s clearly plenty of headroom in that old, copper wire. So why the slow upload speeds well, when home internet first started becoming widespread in the mid 1990s user-generated content like the photos and videos that were constantly sharing on Facebook or Google Drive or bumble? Well, they weren’t really a thing and you’re, probably mostly sitting there.
Looking through Geocities pages on Internet explorer 3.0, so at most you were may be uploading, small JPEGs as email attachments and the idea that we are downloading far more than we’re. Uploading has stuck around to this very day and that’s actually still true to a great extent. You might watch plenty of 4k videos and Amazon Prime, but how many of you are uploading? 4K, video to social media – probably not nearly as many so while internet providers do allocate more bandwidth to upload these days 10 or 20. Megabits per second is pretty common right. Now, it’s still quite a lot slower than the accompanying download speeds, which are increasingly pushing into the triple digit range, sometimes even on lower price plans. So when you’ve got multiple devices attempting to upload data at the same time, you can quickly saturate such an upstream connection, but that doesn’t mean things will stay that way forever, as customers increasingly demand a fat upstream pipe for high-res video calls streaming their video games and Uploading files to cloud storage ISPs are taking notice and the new DOCSIS 4.0 standard supports 10 gigabits per second, both up and down.
Also many fiber-to-the-home connections offer symmetric connections already by default. We’Re just as much of the pipe is dedicated to uploads as it is to downloads. It’S also easier for the fiber providers to do this because light can carry so much data over a distance than copper. You can find out more about that in this article. So, hopefully, no matter where you’re getting serviced, you won’t have to wait too much longer for a better upstream connection than that kid who’s trying to climb up the down escalator at the mall. Wait, no I’m not going anywhere yet fresh books is the small business accounting software. That’S custom-built for how you want to work.
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