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Old 18-02-2004, 03:34   #131
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Re: 1GB Cap Letter!!!!

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Originally Posted by pem
What makes you think they can ? You would have exactly the same problem if you were on ADSL with the "standard" 50:1 contention ratio - if someone started downloading 300GB a month then it would affect the other 49 - if a few started it then the rest would be in trouble. That is the whole problem of a contended system - you share the bandwidth, if one or two start hogging it then the rest suffer.
maybe because other compaines can actually provide many of there customers with a good service, i know of plenty of people in my area who have ADSL with the same ISP and dont have contention problems.........

in theory does NTL not have a far lower contention ratio ?
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