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Originally Posted by Fingers
They avoid mentioning any contention ratios.
Back when I first got cable in 1998, Cable London promised a contention ratio of 20:1 in their terms and conditions. It was used as a selling point because BT ADSL (the only type available then - pre LLU) was a choice between 25:1 (premuim cost) or 50:1.
However, mentioning contention ratios is deliberately avoided now - shame, because it would be an easy way of nailing ISP's to the wall for failing to keep to their side of the contract. They just simply keep piling more and more subscribers onto the UBR & POP's. I am currently getting slower speeds on 20mbit cable than I used to get on ISDN!
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they probably avoid saying it because it's less relevant now, having 20x20mbit customers fighting over 20mbit of bandwidth would be fine for people who don't use it a lot, but 20 of the high downloaders and it looks worse