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RE: 10MB broadband for me then!
- Subject: RE: 10MB broadband for me then!
- From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:58:52 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of James Fidell
> Sent: 16 August 2005 10:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 10MB broadband for me then!
>
> Quoting LeeUKHA (mailinglists@xxxxxxx):
>
> > Git...
> >
> > Stuck on 2mb adsl, with little chance of it going any faster due
to
> > being on the limit for 2mb.... :( And no cable network to
> speak of...
>
> There's another issue here though that appears to have been
> neatly glossed over by Telewest, NTL etc., which is that
> TCP/IP is a two-way protocol, and huge gobs of bandwidth in
> one direction is not necessarily useful if you have chuff-all
> bandwidth in the other.
>
> I can't recall the exact uplink speed for cable, but afair
> it's somewhere around the 128Kb/s mark.
256kbits for me here ...
> If that's the case,
> then I'd not expect people to be able to get anywhere near
> the theoretic capacity of a 10Mb/s downlink unless they also
> significantly increase the capacity of the uplink.
This is something that they are aware of and it is being
"discussed" ...
Phil
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