Low Upstream? (16Mbps Down - 1Mbps Up)
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I know upstream is generally lower than down but does a 1Mbps up sound right when the down is 16Mbps?
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Well that sucks lol
Well you could have 8.5Mb in both directions if you wanted, if ADSL gave you that option.
Basically both upload and download have to share the same available signal bandwidth for ADSL. As people tend to download more data than they upload it seemed sensible to allocate more of that bandwidth to downloading.
If the phone network used one pair of wires for signals to the exchange and a second pair for signals from the exchange, (rather than one pair for both directions at the same time), then in theory you could have 16MB in both directions. Because the two directions would not be sharing the same space in that instance.
Not really, that would be SDSL not ADSL and how often do you see that being offered.
Or I would defo have it.
I know, perhaps I should have posted that you could have 16MB upload and 1MB download instead
Same.
Yeah.
Meh... it depends.
My parents just got put on FTTC and it gives 11mbps down and 1mbps up.
Probably the same speeds as ADSL2+ on the same line.
Yes as others have said you won't get much more than 1 up on ADSL.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3839282811
Not true. the current max is around 3.3Mbps.
it's called Annex M
You are correct. However AFAIK none of the mainstream ISPs are offering Annex M, mainly a few niche providers like A&A offer it for an additional fee.
Certainly Sky who the OP is with are not offering it anyway.
O2 did, but that was removed from the offer when their customers were switched to Sky's infrastructure. I had to switch to A&A in order to continue to get it. It's available on the TalkTalk wholesale product, but few of TT's customers offer it.