ssego
join:2002-01-06
Villisca, IA | reply to Ender_W
Re: What is up with CABLE? 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. |
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. |
