[oxalo]

Why are up speeds so abysmal? Is it a problem with infrastructure, or is it throttling because they think most uses for upload is illegal?

[jseliger]

Good question, and I don't know the real answer; Ars says that cable providers can offer speeds up to a gigabit per second: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/why-co... but IIRC doesn't specify whether the upload caps are a technical or business issue.

[JoeAltmaier]

ISPs sell uplink to businesses. They don't want folks operating a business out of their bedroom and not paying for it.

[wmf]

Cable networks reserve most of the spectrum for downstream, based on old usage patterns where people didn't upload much.