said by RARPSL:said by cablewizzard:Surely, that might mean that OOL subs might gain a lot on average, while Boost and Ultra (which had privileged channels exclusive to them up to now), might be looking at a decline of available bandwidth to them, as they are competing with OOL subs for bandwidth - but OOL+Boost subs are no longer able to monopolize channel bandwidth as easily.
OOL (ie: Standard Tier) users do not compete with Boost and/or Ultra users for Bandwidth. Standard Tier has its own exclusive channel - 603Mhz which is dedicated to ONLY users of that Tier.
if you had quoted the line JUST ABOVE that paragraph of mine, you would have noticed that I actually talked about the FUTURE - one where every service tier is provided by D3 modems, bonding on every available downstream channel.
said by RARPSL:said by cablewizzard:The exclusivity aspect will be gone - and I don't think that Boost subs (at only $10/month more, which includes other costly services like webhosting and vastly larger/more email boxes) were bringing in a proper return in exchange for that exclusivity (basically having an entire channel, 609Mhz, all to themselves).
They do not. They share 609Mhz with Ultra.
Again, you are mistaking my statements about past, present and future here: "the exclusivity aspect WILL be gone" (future tense) and "Boost subs WERE (not) bringing" (past tense) - the latter being a pretty speculative statement about the past up to the point where they started rolling out Ultra (May 2009).
Yes, as multiple other posters have posted from their modem status pages: 609 is in the bonding group for D3 downstream, so technically, you'll find OOL, Boost and Ultra subs with D3 modems utilizing it.
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BTW: There is nothing technically preventing the use of 615Mhz and/or 621Mhz by Standard or Boost D2 users. Just push their parms to use one of these Frequencies in lieu of 603Mhz or 609Mhz respectively.
That's called channel balancing, and that, to my knowledge, has never been in use at CV (as you don't see standard OOL users with D2 on anything but 603 or 687 Mhz, nor Boost users with D2 on anything but 609 Mhz) - as opposed to plenty of other MSOs I am aware of.
If OOL utilization really starts to hurt, or they increase DS channels by a significant number (say they DO go to 8), it'll make a lot of economic sense to implement (for D2). Think of it as traffic balancing for the poor man.
Even 4x4 D3 modems could be channel-balanced, if there's 2 bonding groups of 4 DS channels each - that'll make a lot of sense, actually, while 8x4 D3 modems would bond to all 8.
Frankly, any D3 modem customer who agonizes over whether their modem is 4x4 or 8x4, is purely paranoid and non-rational in the current situation. Kinda like worrying whether your tires are inflated to 32 or 32.1 PSI...
