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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> Is it a hardware thing , like the cable is specifically made for download/uploaded speed ?
Depends on the medium. Fibre optic cables generally have a separate ‘up’ and ‘down’ cable, and they have the same capacity. So it makes sense that there’s no difference between the upload and download speed on offer, because using space on the upstream side doesn’t take anything away from the downstream side.
Copper cables (the like the coax historically used for cable TV) only have so much capacity, and it has to be split between upstream and downstream traffic. Very few people need all that much upstream traffic, so most of the capacity is allocated by the ISP for downstream to the customer.
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