On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:58:58PM -0400, David Fencik wrote: > Ok, but there are still more links in the chain and more possibility for > failure if you are not across the street.
Don't play the what-if game. It's a worthless excersize. Anything could fail and screw up the line. The entire telco infrastructure is scary when you dig into it. So you are across the street, that cable is ancient and more likley to fail than new cable from a remote DSLAM in a hut fed with new fiber. It's not like a T1 is more than 2 pair of the same stuff DSL runs on. It can all fail. It's just usually a lot faster to get a T1 fixed than a DSL line. You get what you get with DSL, it's unpreictable nature is one of the big negatives with it. But once you have it, it's damn stable. None of that does anything to discount from the avaliable bandwidth. There are shared links, but each user is limited to such a small portion of those links, that they can't effect the overall network enough to cause problems. Add to that the economy of scale and 2000 1mbit DSL customers on a ATM DS3 ends up being tons of BW to spare. -- Hexis www.hxxl.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
