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Fibre direct to the home, and not "shared segments" with other buildings (i.e. PON technology,) but direct full-duplex (two strand or WDM) fibre links from you to the ISP equipment.

If and when that is widely available then we'll get equal up and download.

If the up/down split is on copper with FDM then there will always be a question of how to allocate the spectrum to upload vs. download. And mostly, for consumer driven reasons, the standards will skew to give more of it to download.



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