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Re: The downside of ADSL, just before you get too excite d...


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  • Subject: Re: The downside of ADSL, just before you get too excite d...
  • From: "Crick, Steve" <steve.crick@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:55:10 +0000
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>1) Contention- the proposed ADSL offerings give up to 20:1 contention,
so
>if everyone else on the same port is using it, you might get less
>throughput than a single ISDN line.  Basically, owt for nowt- you can
pay
>more to get less contention... the benefit is that you can be on all
day
>for the same charge...

It gets worse than this; the contention ratio of 20:1 is for the IPStream S
series product line:

S500 = 500k/250k; (download/upload)
S1000 = 1mb/250k
S2000 = 2mb/250k

but the IPStream 500 product has a contention ratio of 50:1; do the maths
on
that...

Regards - Steve

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