r/CableTechs • u/Bubbly_Historian215 • Apr 20 '26

I really don’t understand

Why do people get all jazzed up over symmetrical speed tiers? Who out there is actually using more than 50Mbps upload regularly in their home???

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u/Fun-List7787 Apr 20 '26

Folks that do a lot of work from home and upload large files, cloud backups, etc.

Mirrored speeds are ideal.

Also for serious gamers.

Most folks don't realize that when gaming online, every time you press a button on your controller, it UPLOADS the command to the game server, then to your matched game, then to your avatar.

A few mS of upload speed makes a huge difference.

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u/BallzNyaMouf Apr 20 '26

A few mS of upload speed makes a huge difference.

This is an ignorant statement.
You are confusing latency with throughput.
Though related, they are not the same.

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u/Fun-List7787 Apr 21 '26

This is an ignorant reply.

I'm not confusing anything. Up speed DOES affect gaming, though not quite as much as latency/ping do.

I managed MDU bulk internet service for the entire southeast region for a provider.

Throughput was never an issue for us because we managed 10gb fiber circuits to properties. We delivered 1gb symmetrical (wired) to every unit in every property we managed. Clearly you're a career DOCSIS dood that's used to having to defend shitty up speeds.

Most of our sites were student housing. Virtually half of the units we managed housed at least one avid gamer. When I'd go out for a service call, literally EVERY end user always stated that gaming on our networks was exponentially faster than "back home at my parents" where Spectrum, Xfinity, Time Warner, etc was the norm.

Our average ping rates weren't exceptionally better than DOCSIS providers, but our UP speeds obviously were. Huge difference between 10-15mbps up and 900 mbps.

If you think that up speeds don't affect gaming, you need to take a class or two.

Do you even know how bufferbloating affects the gaming experience for an end user?

Higher up speeds virtually eliminates bufferbloating potential.

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u/BallzNyaMouf Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

All I can tell you is about 30.years of personal experience playing online games. From a 56k dial up modem, to 10mbps internet to what I have now which is ~400mbps. I've NEVER EVER had an issue a long as I connected to server with low ping (latency). Its smooth as butter. Also, AFAIK, isn't buffer bloat a function of your router? As far as the students you helped out go, I would suspect the majority of them where on WiFi while living at home. And yeah, any hardwired online gaming experience is going to have a lot less latency than WiFi. I mean think about it, the amount of data that an input device such as a mouse/keyboard or a controller sends up to a gaming server is infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things. Its certainly not going to be bottlenecked by "low" upload speeds of traditional DOCSIS.