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Originally Posted by moroboshi
Easy, you work out how much bandwidth an area can sustain, then look at how many subscribers there are. You then assume they are all maxing out a 20mbit connection and see if there is enough bandwidth to keep them happy.
The way ISPs operate is nothing short of criminal. Can you imagine if you bought a TV only to find out it could only give you sound or colour for a few hours a day? Or perhaps a car which could only do 15mph between the hours of 4pm-11pm? But hey, the car would be sold as 'up to 100mph!'.
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I hear what you are saying but both Tvs and cars are sold using different buisness models (by the way I can't get up to my cars top speed i peaks times legally and physically).
Broadband is sold with contention ratios, the only reason you get broadband as cheap as you do is because of this. I have no idea how much it would cost to guarantee a 20Mb connection, but I guess I would be able to afford a few mubnutes per month.
JJ