| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 22:23:34 |
| Subject: | Re: Networking options : was Re: Issue 20 Not delivery related:) |
Hi Everybody,
>> 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. I must say however that I've never noticed the
>> bandwidth on the ADSL connection at work drop at all, I guess the
>> problems'll only start once ADSL becomes affordable and more people
>> have it.
>
> I thought it was worse than that, and it was 50 people,
> unless you pay more for the business service, which gives
> you the 20 people.
Well, we've the business service :)
> And what are the chances of everyone that's sharing your
> bandwidth all being active at the same time? If you're looking
> at webpages, everyone will have a few seconds downloading stuff
> followed by quite possibly a minute or 2 reading the page
> before clicking on any links.
One word, Napster!. Although that's pretty empty these days,
something else like iMesh or GNutella'll fill that gap.
> I've seen ADSL in action on a Sunday evening, which seems to
> strangely be a particularly busy time of the week. It was
> working fine and rather fast. Big downloads could possibly
> see download speeds that fluctuate wildly though, but still
> fast, on average.
I've only ever used it during the day on week days, so I guess that's
probably quiet time as far as internet junkies go ;)
> As for "affordable and more people have it", is 40 quid a month
> not affordable? Sounds like a bargain to me. And I heard 50% of
> the country can get it somewhere today.
> At least I can get it, and they're doing it on Thursday. Apparently
> ;)
>
> The strange modems shaped like some sort of fish/tortoise thing
> are cute too.
What?? Our ADSL router just looks like an ethernet hub! Mainly
because it's square and has 4 ethernet ports on it I guess ;)
See ya :)
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