[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Mark Harrigan]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:53:02PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 20:50, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:37:53PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 19:59, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:00:29PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 17:52, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:04:06PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > [snip]
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'd agree with Tom here, get proper ADSL if you can.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Sorry, I find that quite amusing. "Proper" ADSL until relatively
> > > > > > recently was seen as the poor cousin of cable modem because a number of
> > > > > > compromises that BT made to make the install as simple and cheap as
> > > > > > possible for their wholesale business.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > They should be looked on as pretty much evenly matched unless upload is
> > > > > 
> > > > > Incorrect (in this country at least), the way cable works here is quite
> > > > > different to ADSL.
> > > > 
> > > > I wasn't in any way saying that they worked in the same way merely that
> > > > the expected performance from each system would be very similar.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I *think* that the way cable works is that any one person on the same
> > > bit of cable as you can have a detrimental effect on your network
> > > bandwidth.
> > >  
> > 
> > And the same is true of ADSL except it's shared at the exchange as
> > opposed to on the cable.
> > 
> 
> Also, where there is probably a lot more bandwidth to be shared.
> 

Now you're just fishing for some reason for it to be cooler.
You share a single 512/256, you and upto 49 others. Hard to believe
but true. Just be glad most people don't use their Broadband very
heavily.

Mark

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