Same in Australia. I don’t believe you can get a symmetrical residential connection. Business, sure. But residential, no.

On that note: with our (Australian) National Broadband Network (NBN), residential connections don't always have the best uptime.

For example, at my last house (Melbourne), a 100/40 FTTC connection... the NBN company kept on having multi-hour outages (booked ahead of time) every 2-3 months. Note that's not my ISP, it's the NBN itself. For "upgrades" in the area and similar.

So very much "not business grade". Not even startup grade really. :(

Going from 1000/50 to 1000/1000 would cost me an 860€ premium right now (Germany) and this is a good offer, it can get more expensive without special promotion.

It got better with fiber in my area. Now 1G symmetric is available for 199€ per month.

Note: Europe, but outside EU/EEA.

Yup. I have a gigabit fibre right up to my home, but the best speed available to me as an individual is 400/40. Gets really annoying from time to time when I need to upload like a couple of gigabytes.

On the bright side it's like €30/month, which also gets me cable and some streaming service subscriptions (HBO Max, Tidal, shit like that), which from what I can tell is a pretty good deal compared to more western countries.

At least in France, it's very common. I'd say symmetric is the exception.