Bandwidth - it's not what you think

[Andrew Bates]

In the past 3 years, the infrastructure lines are getting soaked by
broadband users, because they require so much burst speed... It comes
down to the fact, a couple of cable modems can out-suck a T1 on a good
day... Yet the T1 costs hundreds a month.  So until backbone prices drop
considerably... servers are at the mercy of every household broadband user.

- Andrew Bates

Bradley Miller wrote:

>At 01:26 PM 9/14/02 -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>Pulled the same download from sourceforge.net this morning, ~2.3MB, on both
>>a system on my home network served by RoadRunner (standard domestic service)
>>and a system that sits on a tri-redundant DS3 backbone.
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>>DS3: 	35.31KB/s
>>RRCM:	28.29KB/s
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>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it a matter of how much THEY
>allow you to use (or have available) that determines what your overall
>speed is?  If I'm sitting on a T1, I'm not going to get 100% use of another
>company's T1 speed for a download.  If I'm the only one on that site, I
>could see that, but I suspect there is a fair amount of bandwidth
>throttling going on with more and more broadband users trying to soak up
>the net.
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>-- Bradley Miller
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