Upload speeds 2-3 Mbps when download is under 300kbps
Hello - would someone please explain this? I used testmy.net Thanks!
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I understand that from hour to hour, day to day there are all these changes. But I'm asking about a time interval of no more than 1 minute....
EF wrote:I understand that from hour to hour, day to day there are all these changes. But I'm asking about a time interval of no more than 1 minute....
It can change from second to second. At any time you can have people jumping online to download a file or stream something, and any number of them jumping on and off from one minute to the next. The more subscribers there are on a beam and/or gateway, the more subject it is to speed fluctuations, including minute to minute.
And at the end of the day the entire system is subject to this, as the two main satellites, including the one your'e on, have finite throughputs, though the individual beams are more susceptible due to having lower throughputs than the entire system itself.
It's one of the drawbacks to satellite internet. Unlike systems that are terrestrial based, there's no upgrading a satellite to increase its throughput, nor the individual transponders on it.
