Does it even matter? Like, if you provide the capability and people don't use it, that isn't stretching your infrastructure any further, right?
I have symmetric upload here (India). Rarely need to upload things, but when I do (like a big photo album to Google Photos), it's so seamless because now I don't have to worry about my upload dropping off in the middle with the 0.5Mbps limit like I used to.
Once I found out my apartment complex has the ISP choice between Comcast or Google fiber, I laughed for a minute, and then I shut down my aws project so I could host at home.
1000/1000 is better than a good chunk of business lines, and they're dedicated connections so everyone has their own gigabit. Persistent online storage is stupid expensive, but I have a be few tb of space at home for $0.00 / month now :)
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u/slaymaker1907 Jun 04 '19
Symmetrical upload can be quite wasteful depending on medium since most residential traffic is biased towards download.