[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 21:23, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:07:09PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 21:04, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, but thats at the exchange, were there is plenty of bandwidth.
> > 
> > Just because you made the wrong choice doesn't mean other people have
> > to.
> > 
> 
> I'm not following your arguement, there is only 512/256. 
> It doesn't matter how much bandwidth there is if you can only use
> 512/256 of it at very best.
> 

Thats assumes that there aren't more people doing 512K at the same time
than there is bandwidth to handle it. I just think there is more
bandwidth at the exchange to cope with more people going full throttle.

> As for the other, I think it's a very debatable point.
> 
> Mark