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FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I understand correctly it’s not intrinsic to the DOCSIS standards, it’s just how more or less every cable company chooses to allocate channels. Think like a cable company has 100 channels they may be able to use on a given line, and they choose to put 90 of them on download and 10 on upload (numbers are made up to convey idea). Now they have only a small amount of available upload bandwidth and lots of download, but they could have set it up to be 50/50 to have it be equal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah okay. So the infrastructure is designed that way, but not because it's cable/DOCSIS.