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Originally Posted by Neo-Tech
Haha most people would think that, but it's just something I'm rather curious about, and something I might want to look at going into, in the future. Only 16! 
Thanks for clearing that up though. Can I assume it was done to balance the load? |
You can indeed. You were either cleaved off the current MAC domain and joined with another, more lightly loaded one or you were put onto an entirely fresh set of ports along with a smaller subset of customers.
Say you were sharing the downstreams with another 499 people, the split would have roughly left 250 people on the old port and moved 250 people to the other one, meaning you've gone from 500 people sharing 200Mbit/s which gives you 400kbit/s each to 250 people on each 200Mbit, 800kbit/s each.
Obviously you all get better speeds than that as the odds of everyone using their full whack at once are zero.
Same on the upstream just with smaller pipes, less people on each channel so more capacity for each customer. It's capacity per customer that broadband services are measured in when doing capacity planning.
Make sense?