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Originally Posted by pem
There are a lot less ADSL customers atm so it's not going to be such a problem yet. I know plenty of NTL customers who don't have contention problems, but you can never have a 100% perfect system. Let's remember that ntl have an awful lot of BB customers (800,000+ ?) so if even if only 0.5% of them have a problem at any one time then that is still 4000.
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ADSL coverage has grown greatly so has the number of users, as other companies start to lower prices for the relative speeds more and more will join, at the moment most ADSL companies can cope, the minority on the cable system dont cause as much problems, its a gross mis calculation on NTL's part, they relied on download usage to be 'modest' rather then high upload usage, they were wrong, and download and upload usage is high.
just look at the cable systems current capabilities.......
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Originally Posted by pem
I don't know what ntl's contention ratio is, or even if you can measure it in the same way for cable.
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ADSL is 50:1
NTL is 20:1
although NTL's is said to be 15:1 in some areas it varies.
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Originally Posted by stuartbe
Perhaps some of the users on here should look up the cost of a 2mb leased line ! 
They may get a bit of a shock..... A leased line is the only service where I would consider constand downloading/uploading as all the bandwidth is mine..... |
* is patiently waiting for his 2mbit ADSL line be activated with
unrestricted rights for download or upload
and no its NOT a leased line
