Comments on: The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds

By: Chris Ritchie

Chris Ritchie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:44:17 +0000

You’re confusing the results of your speedtest. Most broadband internet companies market their speeds in Megabits per second, not Megabytes per second. The same is true on a speed test. Your 1 Megabit upload speed is only equivalent to 125 Kilobytes per second. The 860 kilobits per second on your speed test is about 107.5 kilobytes. So you getting 90 kilobites per second on an upload is very reasonable since youre using 720 kbps of your total 1 mbps.

By: myslef

myslef — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:18:43 +0000

I’ll get high speed dial up for 9$/month and load up flickr pics soooo much faster than you.

owned.

does anyone really want a fast upload speed?

or, instead of using ‘mozy’or those bs programs buy a real backup hard drive for 30$ and run it in raid 1 or transfer all your data from time to time, depending on the size of your HD it’d take between a few minutes to an hour.

By: Smart user

Smart user — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:57:34 +0000

1Mbps is only 125KBps so it’s not unrealistic for you to only see 80KBps

By: Robert (Bob) Johnston

Robert (Bob) Johnston — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:25:02 +0000

I wouldn’t use Comcast if I were you. I use Comcast and I just checked my upload speed and it is a consistent 2.55Kbps and the download is also consistent between 10.00Kbps and 28.00Kbps. That is now. Three weeks ago the download was less than half that. What changed? I upgraded to a Linksys N wireless router. It nearly doubled my download, but the upload is still the same 2.55 Kbps

By: MV

MV — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:10:12 +0000

I just bought a new modem and noticed my upload speeds on Cox went from 800k to over 4mbps. This is also over my Linksys router that is several years old. Loving the faster speeds but I always want more when doing large backups to Mozy.

By: Bill The Galactic Hero

Bill The Galactic Hero — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:04:08 +0000

There are tons of technical explanations, but the simple truth is that the ISP's throttles your upload speed because of abuses they experienced when they first rolled out broadband cable. People were running FTP file servers and web sites from their home PC's. Once they throttled the upload speed, it was no longer practical.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:34:25 +0000

OK listen, so your getting 860 kbps upload on speedtest.net but when you actually upload it says your getting 90kbps. this is because some places measure speed in KILLABITS or KILLABYTES, a BYTE is 8 times bigger then a BIT. 860 / 8 = 107.5 so that is why its only uploading at 90kbps. Also, if you suffer from slow upload like most people then get an external hard drive and backup files within minutes...

By: richard a

richard a — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:18:38 +0000

i'm getting upwards of /25 mbs down- and 5 mbs up-/ i'm rather happy i love my Comcast

By: Janet Hanley

Janet Hanley — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:36:44 +0000

You are so right the major point is that inadequate bandwidth which means the actual upstream speeds fall short of what the speed test claims. Its a constant battle to get the correct figures. I got fed up and went on the hunt for something a little more in-depth than just a speed checker and came across a website Web-Meter.com that gives you the history of your usage and It shows transaction and data volumes for upload and download, broken down by individual web sites. Its actually really good. It also shows me the highs and lows of my ride on Broadband. I used it to show my broadband provider that they were not doing what it said on the packet and left them to go elsewhere. I hope some else finds it useful.

By: jimthing

jimthing — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:27:37 +0000

I agree. As of now, the UK Virgin Media service at 50 Mbps download offering only a tiny 1.5 Mbps upload, means so-called 'unlimited' cloud backups (and unlimited storage) on their very own "V Stuff" service is pathetically being used as marketing to get users to upgrade from lower packages, with us later finding out how completely unusable they are.

It took the Virgin Media backup tool for Mac's over 20 mins just to assess the total filesize it needed to backup, then click through to next screen telling me to expect 13+ DAYS(!) for my 180 GB to be uploaded! Right, like I can afford to not do anything on my machine for a couple of weeks!

Cloud backups for most people are pie-in-the-sky until we get at least 50 Mbps as our UPLOAD speed (probably not for 5+ years), when download might be appraoaching South Korea standards of 1000 Mbps (1 Gbps / 125 MBps: that's 125 mega BYTES per second).

By: Airpark

Airpark — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:49:01 +0000

We have the same problems here in the UK and it is quite ridiculous. The fastest connection available is with Virgin Media, a cable company, who offer 50Mb download speeds. Pretty good, you’ll agree and you’d probably expect an upload of around 5Mb. But what do they give you? 1.5Mb and I imagine the real-world speed is somewhat less. We need some ISPs over here to start offering a decent upload rate as I’d prefer to drop my download speed in exchange for better upload.

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