ADSL upload speed

pickarooney

What is the maximum possible upload speed an ADSL line can carry with current technologies? Without going into too many technical details, can anyone explain why is there such a huge discrepancy between upload and download capacity on an ADSL connection? (I assume it has something to do with asynchronicity)

Snaga

A little over 1Mb up on a perfect line.

Quite simply - more of the available spectrum on the phoneline is used for download then upload. It was designed this way as the average home user downloads far more than they upload - so it made sense when it was designed. This was before the days of high p2p usage - although most people still want to download far more than they upload.

juliuspret

pickarooney wrote:

What is the maximum possible upload speed an ADSL line can carry with current technologies? Without going into too many technical details, can anyone explain why is there such a huge discrepancy between upload and download capacity on an ADSL connection? (I assume it has something to do with asynchronicity)

You still have that fibre connection dont you?

pickarooney

juliuspret wrote:

You still have that fibre connection dont you?

Nah, I tried to bring it with me when I emigrated, but they insisted I put back the paving