 SnickerdoPremium
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Niagara Falls, ON | reply to mlerner
Re: Optimax Internet service now available in Toronto! said by mlerner:Can anyone say unlimited login for $10/month fron unnamed 3rd party provider?  Will their network actually be able to handle the throughput of a 16Mbit/s connection, though? Most networks are designed for a specific load. If you suddenly get a bunch of users who are exceeding what the network was designed for, it can fall flat on its ass.
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 mlernerPremium
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Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | said by Snickerdo:said by mlerner:Can anyone say unlimited login for $10/month fron unnamed 3rd party provider? Will their network actually be able to handle the throughput of a 16Mbit/s connection, though? Most networks are designed for a specific load. If you suddenly get a bunch of users who are exceeding what the network was designed for, it can fall flat on its ass. True, though unless I don't know something they do, they can't avoid an overload like that since the connection speed is limited by the line card not the PPPoE login. |
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SnickerdoPremium
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Niagara Falls, ON | said by mlerner:True, though unless I don't know something they do, they can't avoid an overload like that since the connection speed is limited by the line card not the PPPoE login. Well, there's two things here...
1) The ISP may not actually limit at the switch level, which means you'll get your full 16Mbit/s - until everyone and their brother decides to buy a $10 unlimited login, and everyone is downloading at full speed 24/7. That ISP now has all their tier one bandwidth eaten up, and your unlimited 16Mbit/s connection is now a high-latency connection that barely struggles to get a few Mbit/s due to overloading.
2) The ISP may take the additional step of limiting at the switch level, at which point that unlimited login is useless to begin with.
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