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Time Warner 100/10 Mbps at $50 per month in NYC. Promotion is at ~$45. But I invested my own router and my own modem (one of those Motorola SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0) to get the most out of my bucks. Verizon in the neighborhood can give a two-year promotion for similar price for FiOS optic, but I will have to get rid of my modem and try the experience... god knows good/awful.

Why is upload always so low? Is it expensive for upstream bandwidth?

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> Why is upload always so low? Is it expensive for upstream bandwidth?

Nah. Sometimes it's due to the last mile access technology being asymmetric (ADSL, cable, PON), but mostly it's to differentiate consumer products from business products.

That's not the issue with FiOS.

Their asymetric bandwidth offering is configured that way on purpose, it isn't the hardware. They offer symetrical bandwidth if your line a business connection.

I've had FiOS residential and business over the _same_ line (different times, of course) and it goes to the same CO.

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