On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 06:41:17 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 12:19:36 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:34:15 +0100, Bod wrote:

I wonder why the ISPs over there are offering such relatively low upload
speeds compared to here in the UK

If I was a conspiracy guy I would suggest that the content providers
want to slow down pirates. When you understand Comcast (one of the
biggest broadband providers) also owns NBC and Universal studios, it
is not that far out. I am surprised that they are not blocking binary
usenet groups and bit torrent feeds.

IDK about pirates, but various ISP may want to differentiate pricing
for commercial users who are hosting substantial websites from casual
home users. For a typical home user, 5mb up is plenty, while if you
had some heavy usage commercial thing you're trying to run out of your
house, it might not be.

5m may be pushing it but the 10 I have seems to do all I need to do.
When the kids are here, I can support a couple streams and still read
my Email.