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Re: itguy05 (Since the other topic is locked) "All circuits are busy. Please try again later. Thank you."
And this was back before 56k became prevalent. Ahhh, good times... good times! 
Actually, the typical broadband connection is a dedicated connection (which means more or less the same thing as "24/7"), it's just a dedicated connection to a shared resource (aka "the Internet", some big nebulous cloud). It's the usual problem: demand precedes supply. The thing that most customers find unacceptable is that a provider--any provider--expresses surprise that its customers actually want to use the service that they're paying for whenever and as much as they want to. How very odd? Well, if it's over-sold, then so be it. Upgrade your network to provide the service you're selling or risk losing your customers to other providers. All I expect is the "up to" speed at least some of the time, when my segment isn't at 100% utilization. Traffic goes as fast as it goes. I'm not a "mass consumer of bandwidth", but I'm not going to gripe about someone who is--everyone has every right to use as much of "their" connection as they can get. No single customer's packets should get any higher priority than any other single customer's packets. I'll be happy to wait my turn just like everyone else... it's the nature of networking, always has been. |
