Anyone know how bandwidth is sold

[rsutoratosu]

not the one for your house.. I got a lightpath guy giving quotes for 30 meg line
except he wasn't sure if its 30 megs each way or 30 megs total.

What's the usual practice ? 30 megs total and how ever much up or down you use ? or 30 megs max each way ?

 

[kevnich2]

not the one for your house.. I got a lightpath guy giving quotes for 30 meg line
except he wasn't sure if its 30 megs each way or 30 megs total.

What's the usual practice ? 30 megs total and how ever much up or down you use ? or 30 megs max each way ?

Typically for business connections it's just the speed of the connection. In your case it would be 30mbps and is usually sold as symmetrical connections, atleast on the fiber side of things. If it's business coax cable internet, it's usually asymmetrical so it'd be labeled as like 30/5 meaning 30mb/s down and 5mbps up. Business connections typically don't have bw limits though.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Like kevnich2 is saying, you will buy a line where MOST of the time they quote an async line where your download is much faster than up. Typically most users only care about down so they will sell you a "30 meg" line with say 1-5mbps upload. With business class connections you get into some better upload but its not always a synchronous connection. You would need to check with the provider to see