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Click the article. The guy asking on Superuser says that fiber services like Century Link have symmetric upload speeds.


Pretty much all fiber services around Seattle offer a symmetric gig (CenturyLink, WaveG, Google Fiber/WebPass).

The only caveat I’ve heard of is that in some older buildings, WaveG offers only non-symmetric 1Gb down/100Mb up, but i am yet to encounter that myself. I didn’t look into this myself, but i have a feeling that one might actually be just a DOCSIS instead of the real fiber.


Most fiber services use GPON which also reserves less bandwidth for uploads.




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