[Nottingham] ISP ADSL

[Simon Huggins]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:10:42PM +0100, Alex Tibbles wrote:
> 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?

I have never seen a clear explanation of exactly what BT do or where.
You'll will certainly get contention from overfull central pipes (and
from badly balanced central pipes) but I don't know what the situation
with contention is at the exchange level or on the pipes from BT's side
(i.e. not just ISPs overcontending).

It's quite hard to work out what, if anything, is being contended and
where.

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