It usually costs an ISP millions if it wants to totally upgrade it’s whole network. I think it is more a matter of what an ISP’s budget will allow than anything else.

Also if it is an issue of cost why is that the only option available if u want higher upload speeds is to buy an expensive high-speed business grade type connections? Theres tiers for DL speeds but no similar sort of tier plans for the UL speeds. I know it has to do with the network being upgraded for the new demand but it really does make u wonder at the very least if they will drag their feet on this one.

They do it now anyway but it takes more time to do so. Can you imagine the files on a news server if the ISPs made it that much earsier by making the upload speed EQUAL to the download speed? Same thought could apply to Bit Torrent networks…where files would literally explode onto the net and would be great for the average joe because seeding would be a breeze but a nightmare for the copyright police.

Think if it were reversed if our uploads were much higher than downloads there would be a huge pool of available bandwidth on bit torrent and other similarly structured networks there would be no way to use it all and everyone could contribute; you would have much higher content saturation than what is possible now.

and yeah can u imagine if u had a better UL speed for seeding? Say u download a 70MB XVID flic. Instead of having to seed at max 60kbs for like 7 hours you would only have to seed it for say like 3.5 or less…..

plus it would make everybody elses DL speeds insanely faster! One seeder on a rare album? No problem.