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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • Cable does this because of the inherit bandwidth restrictions it comes with, along with being able to price gouge customers to pay for faster upload. Coax (really, DOCSIS) and the related infrastructure around it simply does not have the bandwidth to offer symmetric connections, at least for companies like Comcast (yuck). They will wait until it’s absolutely necessary to upgrade their infrastructure to support faster upload. Even then, it likely will not be symmetric since there needs to be channels for TV/phone too.

    Fiber has much more bandwidth, and the related infrastructure does too. That’s why it’s almost always symmetric.








  • Possibly, it would probably depend on the extractor and business - I would hope that most businesses would catch that the fields weren’t filled out during extraction if extraction is something they normally do. I would expect it’s something that happens with pdf extraction and they’d have a human go in and check it in those cases. Of course, for humans that doesn’t matter, so if only humans are viewing it, I think you’d be good.