|
-ray wrote: To some degree this isn't even a cost issue but a technical one. You are tied to certain physical limitations inherent in the medium. Until there are some changes in how DOCSIS works and some spectrum is made available on the upstream side, you'll never say faster upstream on a cable modem. And your downstream throughput is also going to be limited by the available upstream capacity in addition to other factors. And changes in the DOCSIS protocol would likely mean changes in equipment (cable modems). If you're not running behind a reasonably modern cable modem (DOCSIS 2.0-capable) you'll never get the advertised sustained throughput of 7mbps or higher. I have no idea if Cox is shaping P2P or not in Baton Rouge. They don't appear to be doing so in New Orleans. The problem is there's no way they can sell you true 7mbps for less than $100 a month. They say it's not cost effective for them. They're banking on the fact that you won't actually use all 7mbps all the time. I still say "most" people don't, but more and more people are.No ISP wants to be the first to say "ok we lied, you really can't have all 7mbps all the time". By traffic shaping, they affect a small, but vocal minority. As that minority grows, things will have to change. Maybe one day we'll see the prices/speeds that other coutries get. ray On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: |
_______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
