I have been uploading a lot of video to our non-profit YouTube channel at work, and it has been excruciatingly slow going, primarily because my Shaw cable, high speed Internet service (which gives me 12Mbps down according to most speed tests), only yields around 512kbps upload…
Why does Shaw restrict the upload channel to such a paltry size, with such relatively large download speed?
Recently I had a new comcast service installed in Bellingham WA, also for my employer, and what a pleasure to discover on the same speed-test that it’s upload was restricted to 5Mbps. With the prevalence of services such as YouTube (who have just increased their file-size limit to 2GB, surely many Shaw customers are demanding a larger upload limit? Now doubt Shaw will offer some variation of the old story that some folks will abuse the greater upload limit. This is nonsense, as they have equipment to identify abusers and can just shut them down, as presumably to be labelled an abuser, you would be considered in violated of their acceptable terms of use (this is after all what the word means).
Having said all this, I have no idea what Telus and the like limit their upload channels to, so 512kbps may be common.
