"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I understand that for most of us, upload speeds are slower than download. How much is usual (and acceptable)?Yesterday, I could not order some stuff I needed due to a really slow upload speed. Sites timed out, and a few other errors popped up as well after one or two minutes of spinning timer indicators.Yesterday, my download was a respectable 30.14 Mbps while upload speed was a dismal 0.50Today, stuff is working, and the upload reads 3.05Is this ratio of 10/1 typical (and adequate)?
Pretty normal and 10/1 should be enough to get any web browsing/ordering done no issue. Your ISP may have something else going on that wasn't so much speed related as quality of service related. 30/3 is pretty good.
We download at 140 Mbps Upload at 14 Mbps. So click its there.
I have a friend who works for a local Telephone and Internet Provider in South Central Kansas. He has mentioned having access to a "FULL PIPE"...and then he just grins....What is a FULL PIPE?? (I'm too embarrassed to ask him.) I know their T-1 lines are serviced from that somehow, but I don't really understand it.We are sitting at .38 ms Ping, 5.38 Mbps Down, and 1.11 Mbps Up @ 2PM Central Time. That's pretty bad, but our Upload is about 20% of our Download.
FWIW, you could have 50 kilobits up, and you won't likely have issues with stuff like ordering on line. You're experiencing what the ISP world euphemistically calls "Latency outages"--i.e. the internet works, it just takes way too long to connect to the thirty different sites you need to in order for the web site to load and forward properly.When our net service is bad some hops will take two to four seconds each--I've seen ten hop transfers take thirty seconds, which is long enough to time out a lot of those sites...