Ender_WDoes Microsoft Mean Small And Squishy?
join:2002-09-14
Saint Louis, MO | reply to ssego
Re: What is up with CABLE? You do realize that you are sharing your bandwith with everyone else no matter what technology you use right? DSL has been harping that line for years. Its all shared. You dont have a direct line to anything. If the CO in the area does not have enough bandwith piped to it then its no different than if a cable company doesn't have the bandwith in an area. |
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ssego
join:2002-01-06
Villisca, IA | sure, if you want to go that deep we're ALL sharing bandwidth. The difference to note though is that DSL subscribers hardly ever complain about signifcantly lower speeds than what they are paying for, wheras I've heard that cable subscribers usually deal with much lower speeds during peak hours. Its not the technology's fault, its the greedy cable company not feeding the nodes with enough bandwidth. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | In some cases it could be technology's fault. Cable works much like an Ethernet hub. If you put too many people on the hub, it's going to get slow. However, if you realize the technology's limitations, you add a new hub that's uplinked to a switch rather than keep plowing more and more people on the same hub.
Ultimately it is the cable company's fault for not managing the limitations of its technology.
Being a cable HSI subscriber for nearly five years, I do agree that it is less the fault of a DOCSIS infrastructure and more the fault of insufficient pipes from the NOC to the Internet -- especially when everyone gets slower during peak periods. |
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