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Originally Posted by kronas
it could be done, if there were limits.....now i dont want limits, it cant surely be a bandwidth issue as a cost ?
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Put 600 people on a uBR card, total downstream capcity roughly 27Mbit. Give 594 of them 1Mbit service, give 6 of them (who download all the bloody time, non-stop full whack queuing em up) 5Mbit services. Service for 594 will be affected by what 1% are doing.
This isn't by the way a theoretical thing it is quite plausible and the only reason it isn't seen on ntl's network is the download speed is relatively low.
There has to be a barrier somewhere between free usage and having a laugh sadly. UK users are relatively heavy compared to some, inspite of our rather low data rates.
EDIT: Oh and we show less tolerance than most to not getting 100% speed, as you yourself can attest to with your Internet Central experience
