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by Timmmmbob 4421 days ago
To be fair that was for technical reasons, and I think it will change soon with fibre. They tend to have sane upload speeds, e.g. 10 Mb/s.
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In France, the cheapest fibre is Gb, symmetric. Yet they want to sell us 100Mb download, 10Mb upload. Also, many are reluctant to give us a decent IPv6: many give us a /128, instead of the recommended /48, or just the bare minimum /64. The technical reasons are long gone by now.

The whole debacle may have started for technical reasons, but I suspect now they're just addicted to centralization. Maybe tighter control of the end user leads to more money down the line?