 bencPremium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
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1 edit | Isn't 20Mbps pointless for now? The caps, I see have a bigger potential to be an issue.
I have 10/1 CBN (Charter Business), and find that in most cases, I can't download from a single site at the full 10Mbit. I could do multiple downloads at the same time, but I don't normally do that.
As for the caps, you only have to subscribe to the 16Mbit plan to get the bigger caps (assuming you use Residential like most folks). Sure, the theoretical download speed limit will be slower, but from what I described earlier I don't see that as being a problem most of the time.
»Charter Confirms New Caps
That link shows how the caps will stack up with regards to the speed tiers. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Most sites limit the throughput of individual connections, which is something the speed hucksters don't tell you in the come-on. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by RadioDoc:Most sites limit the throughput of individual connections, which is something the speed hucksters don't tell you in the come-on. Not all sites. At any point if you have multiple internet connected devices in your home it's not so much about being able to download at 20 Mbps. It's about not having to do it at 1 Mbps because you have 5-6 devices all going at the same time. |
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said by RadioDoc:Most sites limit the throughput of individual connections, which is something the speed hucksters don't tell you in the come-on. That is true if they didn't then someone with a big pipe can bring the site down to a crawl for everyone else trying to leech from it.
Yes they have limitation too and their bandwidth are not cheap for the owner of the website
to all those with anything faster then 10mbps, your connection aren't much more useful only for brags rights
faster connection, bigger pipe not a problem.
bandwidth? is a problem, limited |
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That's true but sites that are on CDNs like Akamai will be able to give you the full throughput because they are peered close to your ISP.
I ran some tests and was able to reach the max speed of my home line (30 Mbps) downloading a large file cached with Akamai. |
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