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Subject: Re: dsl vs. cable

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 13:36:16 03/30/01

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On March 30, 2001 at 09:09:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>The variant I have is ADSL, which stands for Asynchronous Digital Subscriber
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                              Asymmetric
>


Oops, yup :)



>ADSL offers more bandwidth _to_ your home connection than _away_ from your
>home connection.  This makes perfect sense for Netscape, etc, since most
>of the traffic is _to_ your computer.  For me, it is different in that I
>do a pretty equal amount of uploading and downloading to my office machine
>from home.

You are right.
It *is* a bottleneck when running a web- or ftp-server, it's why I decided to
upgrade to a faster version.


>I don't see why ADSL would slow down with other users.  You are using different
>pairs of copper...

I don't suppose ADSL slows it down, but if the server at the other side had used
up it's bandwidth, it might become a problem. It's like trying to drive your
Ferrari through a traffic jam. The car can make 200mph without problems, but the
highway can't afford it, because of the limited bandwidth at that moment :)


J.



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