How in the world do you get a connection with high speed upload?

For a long time I've wanted to host a server for some friends in various games.

Today I was looking more into it, and I realized the highest speed upload for a data plan I can find anywhere is 5mb/s. And even for that one I need to get the expensive 100mb/s download connection which I will never need.

So where the heck am I supposed to get an internet connection that would work for a server? Do I need to do/look for something special?

No I do not want to rent a server.

 

Pray that Google fiber has a successful nation wide roll out, that would give incentives for your major provider to service you instead of their pocket book.

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Probably won't help a whole lot in Finland .

But the question's a good one. I'm not really sure why it's so difficult to get good upload speeds. With DSL there were technical reasons; I'm not aware of any technical reasons for this with cable or fiber.

 

I my opinion, it has to do with the provider's bottom line: get the most money from the customer for the least amount of resource used.

It's even easier for the provider to charge you what they want if there are zero competition.

 

I always say, it's like bookcase.

It's easy to take books down the case, just can just throw them down with a pole or something like that, this is your download speed.
No get some books back in the case, you need a ladder and more time to this, this is your

 

Yes, it has to do with the provider, until recently, my ISP had very asymmetric connections, now I'm on 15/10 down/up in Mbps which honestly isn't bad at all, on good days, I get the full 10 Mbps, on bad days, it's 7 Mbps. Most of the connections offered now are similar to that for their fiber optic connections with slightly slower upload speeds, but nothing too drastic. My guess as to why upload speeds are still low is that some ISPs still haven't caught on to the fact that with youtube, etc. the demand for fast upload speeds has drastically increased, something they hadn't foreseen a couple of years ago.

One thing you could is contact your ISP and ask about small business internet plans instead of the consumer plans, they might have something a tad more expensive, but with better upload speeds.

 

If you needed a ladder to put the books back, wouldn't you need a ladder to get them down?

Broadband Internet Service Provider | Time Warner Cable Business Class

According to my provider, I pay 65 bucks before taxes for a whopping 25Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up, on a perfect day.

Their business class service is even crappier, the 80 dollar plan gives you a "7 Mbps x 768 Kbps." You'll get perks like dedicated IPs and suchs, but switching to business class to get higher upload speed isnt as easy as it sound. their 5Mbps down and 5Mbps up doesnt even have a price lol.

 

Maybe this gives you a better understanding:

Why Are Upload Speeds Slower Than Download Speeds?

 

That is not true, normally upload and download speeds are suppose to be the same but it is a known fact that most subscriber download rather than upload.
So to keep them happy ISP skew the down the upload and skew up the download rates to fit user patterns.