I know that internet providers gives you a limited bandwidth for uploading and download and most of the times they divided with more download speed than upload. How does this division work? Is it a hardware thing , like the cable is specifically made for download/uploaded speed ? Is it possible to have a flexible division between these two, for example if I wanna download I have 90/10 division and if I wanna upload 10/90? (Excuse my English, it’s not my mother language).
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My favorite ELI5 analogy is that it’s like interstate highways that have lots of lanes. Internet Service Providers manage these lanes. If there are 10 lanes total but you know that almost all traffic is going one way, then you will make 9 out of the 10 lanes go one direction and only 1 lane for the other.
The average consumer does way more downloading than uploading, so ISPs dedicate more of their hardware to optimizing the download lanes.
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