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by infodroid 3670 days ago
Also in my experience ISP's to this day favour downloads over uploads by at least a 20:1 margin. Not to mention their restrictions on open ports and running internet-facing servers.

Though I'm not sure if this was just a market response to customer preferences or if it was a contributing factor to digital consumerism.

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> Also in my experience ISP's to this day favour downloads over uploads by at least a 20:1 margin. [...] Though I'm not sure if this was just a market response to customer preferences or if it was a contributing factor to digital consumerism.

Verizon ran a campaign recently where they made their FiOS service 1:1 claiming that it was due to customer demand. But it happened right around when the FCC was debating net neutrality, so I always assumed that Verizon hoped they could fool a few people into thinking that it was what net neutrality was all about.

That's the A in ADSL for you...