| From: | Will |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 10:50:28 |
| Subject: | Re: Networking options : was Re: Issue 20 Not delivery related:) |
> > The problem with ADSL is that the same frequenct is shared with about
> > 20 people, so if everyone was using the full bandwidth at a time your
> > download speed could be as little as 25kb/s, half the speed of a
> > modem.
> It's shared among 50 people on the home service and cheaper business
> service, but when atre all 50 people going to be using it at the same
> time? with cable the bandwidth is shared among all the people on the
> same loop, so as more people in your street get it, the service slows
> down.
Sounds to me like the contention ratio is similar for both cable and ADSL.
Both fairly high anyway.
> > and if you use full 128k
> > you pay twice as much for the phone bill
> Yeah, doubling the cost of an 0800 call is a real killer :)
> For most of their life, RedHotAnt were allowing dual channel connections
> to their 0808 number, it only stopped when they changed telco and
> numbers.
Is there any company left who allows 0800 128K connections? All the ones
I've seen only allow it at 64K. Any channel bonding must go through a local
call rate number. :(
While I'm here, is there any reason why sometimes ISDN is referred to as
56k/112K.. rather than the full 64k/128k?
Cheers,
Will
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