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Old Oct 24, 2012 | 9:10 pm
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Originally Posted by horseguy
Yep. I've never even seen a faster upload than download until these four hotels. Since the uploads were consistently topping at 20 mbps, I suspect they were capped. The cap for uploads can simply be set higher because relatively few people are uploading anything of size.
Bandwidth throttling is common on the majority of networks- if a hotel is not using it I would be surprised. Even basic routers and switches can set this up now directly in the config settings- without any additional software.
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