Curt,
It sounds like your a bit confused... no biggy... DSL is a converted analog line
to a digital line. Part of the digital line is used for the telephone (this doesnt
take away
from your bandwidth either), then you have up and down bandwidth (you should notice
that your upload
is only about 1/2 of your download speed). on your 256k dsl, you should get about 40k
down, and 20k up, and
you should be able to do them all concurrently. (this means you should be able to
upload at 20k, download at 40k, and talk on the
phone at the same time). Your mileage may vary a bit.
Jamie
> Hey, I just realized that I might not understand bandwidth as well
> as I think I do...
>
> I have a 256k DSL connection. With the routes as they are, I can
> basically have one stream of Hi-Fi MP3s coming down to my computers
> without skippage. That's the 128-bit version. If I run two at once,
> then it's too much bandwidth and everything starts skipping.
>
> However, I realized that I could upload my mp3s to myplay.com and
> it didn't seem to have any effect on my downloads.
>
> Shouldn't an upload's bandwidth take away from the available
> download bandwidth? Or are they actually separate?
>
> Curt
>
>
