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Originally Posted by fugu
Dont know how true this is, but i was once told by an ex ntl employee that if 50% of the custmers were uploading at full speed it would crash the network. Guess it make some sense given the poor upload rates we recieve, and small increases in up speed.
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It would also result in the sun falling from the Sky, the moon descending onto the oceans and causing a huge tsunami, and Sarah Palin to seem intelligent
Nah it would make virtually every connection on the network rather slow and cause some disconnections in some areas which are severely saturated, but wouldn't crash the entire network. Remember the network is very localised. The bandwidth you are using may not be the same as next door, and the uplinks from the CMTSes are certainly able to handle upstream saturation.