Most consumer and basic business broadband packages advertise impressive download speeds but offer significantly slower upload speeds. For many business applications, this asymmetry creates real problems.
Video conferencing requires strong upload bandwidth to transmit your video and audio to other participants. With asymmetric connections, you may experience poor video quality, frozen frames and dropped calls.
Cloud backup and file synchronisation services rely heavily on upload speed. With slow uploads, backing up critical business data can take hours instead of minutes, leaving you vulnerable to data loss.
VoIP phone systems send voice data in both directions simultaneously. Insufficient upload bandwidth leads to poor call quality, delays and dropped calls - none of which are acceptable in a business environment.