Download speed slower than Upload Speed

[trader_4]

t before my PC modem as much as I'd blame anything else. 98% of the time m y internet is reasonably fast, but every once in a while the laptop or PC " can't find" the internet! Every few months or so I unplug & reset both my modem and wireless router to resolve such hickups.

c internet download speeds(from 56kbps dialup in 1995 to 15-20MBps today): More sophisticated webpages(with animated ads and other crap) and the elep hant in the room: 10-20 users today for every user back then. And remember , "user" does not always mean human. Lots of machines automatically access the internet as part of their daily functioning - utility servers, commerc ial enterprises, etc.

But none of that explains why he's only getting 30kbps download on a DSL line and 10X that in upload speed. I agree there is more traffic each year , but we've still made enormous gains in speed in the last 20 years because the system has evolved to handle it. Back then, we were using modems at

56Kbit max, now I have 15Mbit and could get a lot more for some extra $$ in monthly charge.

Unfortunately, the OP seems unwilling to get Verizon tech support on the phone to correctly diagnose the problem.

[Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney]

FWIW.... next Verizon stockholders meeting, May 7, 2015.

Verizon accused of tearing out copper telephone lines to force FiOS and wireless on customers

March 24, 2014 -- Verizon has come under fire in the past for attempting to shove consumers off of copper wire and on to either FiOS or its expensive wireless Voice Link service but the blowback to-date hasn't dissuaded the company. Now, consumer advocacy groups and consumers themselves are both amping up the pressure, asking the government to investigate Verizon's poor behavior and testifying that the company is actively trying to shove people off existing copper deployments.....

[Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney]

From the article....

In 2012, Verizon's Chief Financial officer, Fran Shammo, told the Oppenheimer Holdings Technology, Internet, and Communications Conference that "we are really proactively going after these copper customers in the FiOS footprint and moving them to FiOS. So if you are a voice copper customer and you call in that says you are having trouble on your line, when we go out to repair that we are actually moving you to the FiOS product. We are not repairing the copper anymore."

Title: Verizon accused of tearing out copper telephone lines to force FiOS and wireless on customers