Internet Download/Upload Speeds...

[Piru]

Or are their technical/hardware reasons for this not to be possible..

You've been told numerous times already that it's technical reasons.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Digital_Subscriber_Line

[Piru]

Having just checked my router, my current connection is:

Down:2268 kbps
Up:285 kbps

That's almost 8:1.

According to the network stats on this machine, I've received over 440MiB of data this session but sent only 30MiB, so I'm actually underutilising my upload bandwidth here

Lets see:

Downstream: 18383 Kbps
Upstream: 1023 Kbps

(Actually the downstream should be 24Mbps but I suppose the DSLAM isn't the next door)

Curiously my long term network stats don't indicate 18:1 ratio, but rather:

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  eth0 since 09/15/09

          rx:  1.35 TiB      tx:  329.53 GiB      total:  1.67 TiB

   monthly
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
       Sep '10     53.76 GiB |   35.59 GiB |   89.35 GiB |  289.16 kbit/s
       Oct '10      0.98 GiB |  754.61 MiB |    1.71 GiB |   55.69 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated     10.14 GiB |    7.64 GiB |   17.77 GiB |

   daily
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     yesterday    172.19 MiB |   48.64 MiB |  220.84 MiB |   20.94 kbit/s
         today    516.78 MiB |  547.52 MiB |    1.04 GiB |  102.04 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated       521 MiB |     553 MiB |    1.05 GiB |Well, I guess I like seeding those linux isos :lol:

ADSL upstream is really pathetic. Even my N900 HSDPA has 1.5Mbps. I actually use it to upload stuff when in a hurry.

[Piru]

Piru, I don't know what your problem is

My problem here was that you ignored a perfectly fine explanation and kept asking the same question again.

short snappy comments

This is my style. If you don't like it, tough.

[Piru]

why it is that you can't use the upload bandwidth as much as the download bandwidth

There are certain frequency areas reserved for upstream and downstream. Since most traffic in residential network connections is downstream the specifications have been crafted so that the limited bandwidth is mostly reserved for download. That's the reason it's called ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).

This is pretty much what everyone has been saying in this thread as far as I can tell. Not enough details? Read the wikipedia article I linked.

Now if your not happy with me asking such questions even when others are quite happy to reply

Had you read the link I provided you'd know the answer to your question.

[Piru]

My, how the other half lives

My paltry 2Mb connection is the limit of the copper between my flat and the exchange (which I am about as far away from as you can get before you are closer to a different one).

Funnily my connection is rather poor in local terms. They're selling 200/10 M, 110/5 M and 40/2 M connections these days (prices are 55eur, 45eur and 36eur per month respectively).

Unfortunately I'm tied to my 2 year contract. Grrr :madashell: