Tom Hargrave wrote: > I have DSL to my home office but friends are using Comcast. They see obvious > slow downs in the evenings, probably caused by the neighbors plugging up > their shared bandwidth with porn. The problem is that cable is a shared > connection. You may buy an advertised 6 MB download but when your channel is > busy, everyone gets throttled down.
DSL has the same problem. You might have a 6 megabit connection to the phone company's equipment, but the phone company doesn't actually give you that connection to the actual internet. A group of 24 or 48 homes could all share as small as a single 1.5 megabit connection. Although most are much better than that, and if you're lucky they should be making ones now that have a fiber connection for those 48 homes. Basically, all that is guaranteed with DSL is that you talk to the telco's equipment at that speed.... thats it. Your neighbors can still easily slow down your connection. The important thing is finding out which company allocates their bandwidth the best for your neighborhood. John _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
