InGreenwood
@rr.com
| reply to juking
Re: How does a company give you more speed?
But customers taking advantage of higher speeds may slow down other customers. Lets imagine your local cable company has a T3 back to the Internet. 45 Meg divided by 6 Meg would mean 8 customers would have to be attempting to download the entire internet before slowdowns effect others.
If folks upgrade to 10 Meg, 5 customers can suck up the entire pipe, even though the cable company did not downgrade any equipment or add any new limits. |
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GeekNJ
Premium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Aggregated bandwidth is an issue with any provider and it's the reason you can pay $45 for fractional T3 speeds vs the thousands of dollars for more "dedicated" bandwidth.
If your provider only has a T3 to the Internet, find a new provider. Sounds more like a dial-up ISP then a broadband ISP.
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burner50
Pinlifter
Premium,VIP
join:2002-06-05
On the lead | Well said...
a "broadband" probider should not be happy with anything less than an OC48 pipe into their headend. |
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