[Nottingham] Broadband Bullwell

[Paul Sladen]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Josh Lock wrote:

Hello Josh,

> I have poor netiquette I know. I actually expected to be brought up on
> it sooner :)

I was actually quite impressed---you bottom bottom posting correctly (unlike
Michael who's just sent a message! :-)

> So let me see if I understand you correctly, I get 11Gb every 14 days?
> I wonder how many other people will be using the same line?

GigaBytes (GB) are 8 times bigger than Gigabits (Gb).  You get 1GB per day.
NTL don't care if you go over your 1GB limit 3 days in a fortnight.

IIRC, E&OE.

> BT apparently has a 1 to 50 contention ration but I cannot find record
> of NTL's.

The Cable modem downstream use 34Mb shared channels, the upstream 3.5Mb,
which are segmented with 1000-2000 cable modems per channel, per area/region
(several HFC trees).

Assuming most people have the 600Kb service and there are 1000 modems in use
this would give a contention of 1:20 - 1:25 for the last mile and maybe
slight contention beyond the CMTS (Headend) if it's only 100Mb/155Mb.

Personally, I've never found it a problem, whereas I have found the ADSL
contention BTO and friends to be sucky.

YMMV,

	-Paul
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