On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 09:58 pm, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 17:29 02-04-03 +0100, William Goodall wrote:I pay (about) €36 (£24.99) per month for 512/256 ADSL
Over here that would cost EUR 50 to 55 per month.
at 50:1 contention.
At 50:1 WHAT? I'm not familiar with that term; please explain.
Contention is how many other users you are (possibly) sharing the bandwidth with. With 50 users all trying to download a file simultaneously, each gets only 10kbs, which is quarter the speed of diallup!
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