Next message: Wilcox, Curtis: "RE: [WinMac] Cable vs DSL"
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> From: Peters J B (Brooks) CRBE [mailto:PetersJB@nswccd.navy.mil]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: 'winmac@iffy.com'
> Subject: RE: [WinMac] Cable vs DSL
> I have heard that cable throughput can depend on the number
> of customers and their bandwidth utilization, since all share
> the same "line". My DSL max throughput is always at the
> rated levels whenever I test it with saturated uploads or
> downloads (upload rate < download rate for me).
Yes, with cable your neighborhood (up to 500 homes I think) shares a segment
but the concern was really FUD spread by the phone companies, mostly when
cable modems were going in but they weren't quite ready to provide DSL.
Ultimately all bandwidth is shared, it just that with cable the congestion
affecting you is more likely to be someone physically close to you. The
difference would only matter if you had 2 houses on your street which
constantly used their cable service to transfer tons of data between each
other (which doesn't happen because cable modem upstreams are usually capped
at only 128-256Kbps).
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