I got my cable modem yesterday and so far things have been good.
I asked the technician from MediaOne about the sharing of bandwidth
and he told me that it would be a factor only where there were a
lot of people, e.g. if I were in downtown, I would have to worry
about it. He told me that it is not a big deal in the "suburbs".
I asked him if he could tell me how many people were connected
on the same line as I was and he said he could not. I don't know
if he did not know or he was not allowed to reveal that info.
-venkat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:48 AM
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Broadband vs DSL
>
>
> Bob Dallis wrote:
> >
> > DSL customers share the bandwidth of the trunks used to
> connect the central office to the ISP. In truth it is more a
> question of marketing model than one of technology. A
> marketing model that requires 10 DSL subscribers to share a
> single T1 between the
> > co and the ISP would result in the same situation as a
> broadband/cable marketing model that provides the same usable
> bandwidth to its subscribers.
>
> So, it makes sense to ask the question of both providers, 'how many
> folks will I be sharing my pipe with?'
>
> Again, I would look at past history. My personal experience
> with EVERY
> cable company I've had to deal with has been lousy customer
> service and
> an inordinate amount of downtime. That perspective comes from
> experiences with at least 5 cable companies (or 7 'virtual' cable
> companies).
>
> The phone company has always focused on reliability and
> availability. I
> think this is because phone service is seen as a necessity.
>
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> Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
>
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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