Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:18:20 -0600 From: Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> Subject: Re: Is this claim true, or not? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10301192014310.28183-100000@pow>
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> Its all right and wrong.
>
> DSL, your bandwidth to the co (last mile) is not shared.
> Cable, last mile shared, encrypted between cable mode and node, that was
> another myth used by dsl companys (they said you could spy on other
> cable users).
>
> DSL, once your to the co, your bandwidth is shared just like rest of the
> internet
> Cable, ditto
I could never figure out why having multiple neighborhoods connect to a
DSLAM at a CO was somehow magically better than having a single
neighborood on a CMTS. Both suffer from the oversubscription blues.