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Re: Desperation? said by tbaker397:Seems like it. If theres only 38mbps between 100 users, how can Cox offer 15mbps to everyone? Smells like a stall tactic. ALL providers oversell their bandwidth. They always have.
Do you think Verizon has enough Internet bandwidth to cover all of its 15 and 30meg customers?
If providers didn't oversell bandwidth, your connection wouldn't be cheap.
Find me a provider that has a 1:1 Internet bandwidth to customer bandwidth ratio. Heck, there probably isn't a provider that has a 1:1 ratio on their own backbone, it would be economic suicide. |
| yes verizon does have enough bandwidth to offer 15 mbs to 30 mbs, fios is a dedicated fiber line, bandwidth over fiber is almost unstoppable, the only things that keep fiber speeds low is the hardware at the sending and receiving end. then with encryption and compression verizon could maintain these speeds across their whole network. not only that but they have stated if your speeds drop below 14. something for the 15mb tier they will send a tech to your home to fix it |
| I don't think you understand what is meant by "Internet bandwidth."
Verizon just can't magically make Internet bandwidth by running fiber. Their Internet bandwidth has nothing to do with FIOS installs.
Verizon must peer with major providers, they must keep these external circuits big enough to support the users behind them. The Internet doesn't just magically come to them, they have a backbone that must be maintained that has nothing to do with FIOS specifically.
And FIOS is not a dedicated fiber line, you're not connected directly to the Internet with all bandwidth dedicated to you. It's a 622mbit circuit that is shared between 32 homes they say. Reasonable, but NOT dedicated.
I'd love to see a Verizon tech come to my house and fix a drop in available bandwidth FROM my house, that would be a sight to see.
Encryption and compression have NOTHING to do with maintaining speeds. Encryption and compression require TIME and COMPUTING power to DECRYPT and UNCOMPRESS the data. How exactly would that keep speeds up? No major provider encrypts and compresses customer traffic, unless someone is paying for that special service. But most do it for themselves, out of security concerns. |
