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Kymmy · 22-02-2008, 10:51

Sorry but with the amount of technical posts on the 50Mb technology why do people think that it's going to be anything like the current 20Mb situation. It's running on a different DOCSIS 3 system compared to the old DOCSIS1/2 and will be multistreamed. Also a lot of the 20Mb brigade will either go up to 50Mb or down to 10Mb (when the 4Mb upgrade finally gets completed) so you should have a more flattening of the usage on the old tiers which will mean on average people getting closer to thier max (dId that sound liek a PEPSI advert to you as it did to me when I was typing it???)

For those though that want a simple analogy think of the M6 Toll road (50Mb). For those that want to pay it's fast, smooth and rarely gets clogged up, where as it's effect on the M6 round the north of Birmingham (2/4/20Mb) was a bit less congestion which meant slightly higher average speeds.

Kymmy

22-02-2008, 10:51	#11
Kymmy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 18,385	Re: 20 Meg to 50 Meg upgrade. Sorry but with the amount of technical posts on the 50Mb technology why do people think that it's going to be anything like the current 20Mb situation. It's running on a different DOCSIS 3 system compared to the old DOCSIS1/2 and will be multistreamed. Also a lot of the 20Mb brigade will either go up to 50Mb or down to 10Mb (when the 4Mb upgrade finally gets completed) so you should have a more flattening of the usage on the old tiers which will mean on average people getting closer to thier max (dId that sound liek a PEPSI advert to you as it did to me when I was typing it???) For those though that want a simple analogy think of the M6 Toll road (50Mb). For those that want to pay it's fast, smooth and rarely gets clogged up, where as it's effect on the M6 round the north of Birmingham (2/4/20Mb) was a bit less congestion which meant slightly higher average speeds. Kymmy