Question
Why the vast differences in upload and download speeds?
I recently setup a small $5 droplet in the London region. I installed speedtest-cli to test the upload and download speeds, but I saw some very different results.
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by Vodafone UK (Bracknell) [14.60 km]: 4.009 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 3837.55 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 4.16 Mbit/s
I tested on multiple speedtest servers but the results were basically the same, the downloads were betweeh 500-3300mb while the upload was around 4mb. Any thoughts on why the upload is so slow compared to the download?
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