said by Tzale:said by ExecPro:Knowing that signals vastly affect the speeds that you can get from your OOL connection, how can they really say that they will be able to double the speed? I mean, right now they say we can get up to 10Mbps, and even at my old house the most I ever got was 9200Kbps, here at my new dwelling I only get 8000Kbps. Just doesn't seem feasible. At least we know that fiber isn't effected by distance and signals. I think I still would make the switch to FIOS.
Signals do not affect the bandwidth you get. They do with DSL but not with cable. Cable's speeds are effected by neighbors sharing the bandwidth and / or bad bandwidth management at the CMTS. Nothing to do with signals. If you can get connected, you can get max speeds. Also, just so you know 8000kbps is FINE with OOL. NO ONE can get 10mbps. OOL is capped at 10mbps / 1mbps and due to hardware limitations (the modem) the service can only provide on average 8000-9500kbps because there is a need for overhead.
If OOL were to provide 20mbps/2mbps the max you'd probably receive would be 18-19mbps/1.5-1.8mbps.
-Tzale
I think you are right. It seems that OOL shaves 10% off your download and upload. I guess that OOL uses 10% for overhead.
