Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Ad
I prefer to look at it the other way. In the days of 56k we used to get ISPs with horrible contention at peak times. As VMs network was approaching similar capacity problems they couldnt just add another dialup server, instead they thought up this great wheeze called STM allowing them to resell every L and XL users peak time bandwidth to 3 other people (and M users b/w to 1 other person) by only incurring the costs of the cisco software.
This was instead of spending on CMTS upgrades to upgrade hardware to give us what we paid for, which follows from the decreasing revenue they receive from BB accounts.
|
Well they are actually giving you more than what you pay for. If your on the 20meg with a 20:1 contention, Then your actually paying for a 1meg connection which is burstable to 20meg when theres spare bandwith. With STM they only drop you to 5meg which is a lot more than a 20th of 20meg.