Looks like all Android-related projects, big or small, high profile or low profile, suffer from the same problem the iOS jailbreak community has: everybody with power or a voice in the community is either a whiny bitch or a brat.
Technical/legal stuff aside, all problems with projects related to the Android OS are all the same: immaturity, lack of responsibility, selfishness, etc.
If it's fibre there's no reason for it not to be symmetric (asymmetry is to be expected in DOCSIS/etc).
In any case I can make dozens of requests per second with only 1M upload. I'd say the amount of requests/second will only be limited by the CPU of the router.