I would complain about that Rich. My download is well under yours, just tested it at 37.38 Npton to Glasgow but upload is 8.85 so you are only doing a couple of meg better than me.
Now, it takes two to tango so if most private links have a much slower upload than down how does having a blistering download speed help? I have never had an internet problem that could be put down to my sub 40Mbps download speed but I can SEND files about as fast as you mate!
Dave.
Actually, this is very typical of asynchronous or asymetrical internet. My service is stated to be 300/10, so I'm actually doing well. It's a way to maximize the available bandwidth. If you have, say, 1 Gb of bandwidth, and you reserve 100 up and 100 down for each customer, you can only service 5 customers. If you go 10 up and 100 down, you can service 9 customers. For the typical home user, they never come close to maxing out the upload speed,
When I first got hi speed access, it was 10 down, 1 up. Of course that was many years ago, and was well beyond what the typical T1 line did at the time (1Mb up and down). Unless you are running a server or continually doing very large uploads to Youtube or your Google drive, then 10M uploads are no problem. For streaming a video, you are generally only sending a few bytes for the request, and then any handshake bytes to confirm that you received the packet. All of the heavy work is coming down.
I would have to change providers to go to synchronous internet, something that would very good for Rob, since he's sending files back and forth from his server.
Anybody here remember using a 110baud acoustic coupler? I remember downloading a basic game file for my TI99/4A. It took maybe 10 minutes to download a 4 or 5
Kilobyte file! I guess that is progress. We could have never conceived of the amount of data that is transferred today.