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Upload is useful in case you're on a connection with severely worse upload than download. Say 10mb down and 384k up.

How much uplink do you need to send enough ACK packets for a HD stream?




You're right, uplink is pretty much useless if you're only consuming Netflix. I guess I'm still infected by 90s-era ideals about the internet being a place for the free exchange of information, where any tech-savvy person should be able to run their own server, etc, etc. I'd at least like to be able to upload photos of my son without my connection slowing to a crawl.




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