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 Message 2113 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: UL speed misnomer? 
 25 May 24 17:55:46 
 
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Hi August,

On 2024-05-25 08:47:00, you wrote to All:

 AA> I recently subscribed to fibre. The promise was 25Mbps UL/DL.
 AA> So far so good wrt download speed.  But when I needed to SFTP a
 AA> few large files to my server, the max transfer rate I could get
 AA> was 300KiB/s which translates to 2.5Mbps. So, I assume the UL
 AA> speed limitation is placed at the server? Fast.com reports
 AA> 30+Mbps bidirectional.

Even 25Mbps sounds slow for fibre connections.

They will be installing a fibre connection in my house next week. I haven't
decided on a subscription with a provider yet. But speeds I can choose from
are:

100, 400 Mbit/s, and 1, 2 and 8 Gbit/s


Bye, Wilfred.

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