[Nottingham] ISP ADSL

[Alex Tibbles]

--- Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:
> > One thing to remember is that contention ratio is
> based on users for
> > that ISP on your exchange. If you chose a small
> ISP you may be their
> > only user on your exchange so you a virtually
> guaranteed a 1:1
> > contention ratio.
> 
> I suspect many small ISPs use others for their
> central pipes (we do) so
> I assume this then falls down there.
> 
> Another issue causing congestion at the moment is
> everything is
> adjusting to the numbers of ADSL MAX lines and some
> ISPs are replanning
> for more central pipes in order to satisfy the
> demand/contention they
> are seeing.

I thought DSL contention was something to do with the
number of connections sharing an ATM VC? (Sharing is
it 17Mb/s)? Or is it one of those terms loosely
applied to a number of things but strictly meaning a
few different things?

alex

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