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My understanding is that it is going to take a lot of capital investment from Comcast to fix that because their entire (copper) infrastructure is optimized around downloads. That is because the entire network was designed around cable TV, which is primarily downloading data. Newer fiber installations are better designed to handle uploads.

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Maybe they can use the billions they got paid to upgrade their infrastructure from the government decades ago.

I love how this myth has morphed over time. Not only did nobody get "paid billions to upgrade their infrastructure from the government." But even insofar as you assert that lifting rate regulations (where the government tell you what prices you can charge) is the same as "getting paid billions" that was for telephone companies, not cable companies like Comcast. But don't get facts get in the way of Political Truth (TM).

Leaving billions aside, they were granted local monopolies in many places due to their investment. One might argue they have not been good stewards of that responsibility.

Those have been illegal since 1992. Almost none of the infrastructure in use today was built under those protections from competition.

Yes, DOCSIS does have a download/upload ratio. But DOCSIS 3.1 (required for gigabit down) has a 200Mbit upload limit, they are artificially capping it far lower and should have no issues supporting 100mbit up on a gig down plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

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