Re: Cable modem

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> > Actually on cable you should usually get the quoted speed.  In
the past
> > I've often downloaded large files at the full 10Mbps.
>
> Only in the same way that on ADSL you should get the quoted
speed ... i.e.
> under ideal circumstances such as minimal contention, good signal
quality
> etc.
>
> You're still sharing bandwidth back from the cabinet to the ISPs
hub.
>
> I've had 10Mbit here for ages and have often been able to download
at
> 1.2mbytes/sec (from places like Microsoft) however sometimes I get
only a
> fraction of that (maybe 15-20%) ... they all vary. Usually a
typical
> download speed maxes out at about 120 - 180kbytes/sec which I
assume is
> being held up by a bottleneck somewhere.
>
> Phil
>

Yes you are sharing from the cabinet back to the ISP, but the
available bandwidth is huge.

If you can download at full speed from MS, then the bottleneck isn't
likely to be your ISP, but the server at the other end.

That's in stark comparison to the ADSL scammers who simply lie about
the speeds they provide, and with whom you won't get anything like
the top speed no matter who you download from.

Mal