Many people think that they don't upload much data, but that's not true.
On the Internet, every item you look at something on the Internet requires upload data packets along the way, and a single item can require the upload of thousands or even millions of confirmation packets of data. It's a fundamental aspect of how the modern Internet works. The email, the youtube video, and merely browsing the web requires a lot of uploaded data.
Well here's the dirty secret: A slow "upload speed" results in slow confirmation packets, which results in slow Internet. And ISPs like Comcast only talk about selling you "download speeds".
Sadly, even Comcast's "Performance" 200 Megabit service is throttled to a 6 Megabit upload speed. That's great for 1999, but in today's internet? Performance? Hardly.
So forget about dumping more money to Comcast to fix the problem, as the Comcast "pay more money for speed" is primarily about increasing DOWNLOAD speeds. And that's completely irrelevant when your performance bottleneck is your UPLOAD speed.
Here's an example. You have a car that can do 180 MPH and you have a 200 MPH XFinity highway. It's literally impossible for you to be slowed down on the 200 MPH highway.
But the return road is a 6 MPH highway. Well, that's really going to slow down your trip. Yes, it'll be fast in one direction, but you still need to make it back.
Just change MPH to "megabits per second" and that's where we're at.
On the Internet, every item you look at something on the Internet requires upload data packets along the way, and a single item can require the upload of thousands or even millions of confirmation packets of data. It's a fundamental aspect of how the modern Internet works. The email, the youtube video, and merely browsing the web requires a lot of uploaded data.
Well here's the dirty secret: A slow "upload speed" results in slow confirmation packets, which results in slow Internet. And ISPs like Comcast only talk about selling you "download speeds".
Sadly, even Comcast's "Performance" 200 Megabit service is throttled to a 6 Megabit upload speed. That's great for 1999, but in today's internet? Performance? Hardly.
So forget about dumping more money to Comcast to fix the problem, as the Comcast "pay more money for speed" is primarily about increasing DOWNLOAD speeds. And that's completely irrelevant when your performance bottleneck is your UPLOAD speed.
Here's an example. You have a car that can do 180 MPH and you have a 200 MPH XFinity highway. It's literally impossible for you to be slowed down on the 200 MPH highway.
But the return road is a 6 MPH highway. Well, that's really going to slow down your trip. Yes, it'll be fast in one direction, but you still need to make it back.
Just change MPH to "megabits per second" and that's where we're at.