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Originally Posted by Kushan
It's never ONE guy. One person does not have the ability to congest the entire network.
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it could be if eg. the normal utilisation is say 60% and then a top tier user with 10 or 12 upload goes full throttle. On a 18mbit US channel one user can use more than half of the bandwidth, a 12mbit customer can use 2/3 of a US channel by them self. Your comment is right if the normal utilisation is 0% which isnt the case. I have been surprised to hear reports VM have been activating 120/12 in areas with no US bonding, seems nuts.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Virgin have won when they get customers blaming others for their poor connection. Virgin not supplying enough up or downstream for the amount of customers connected is where I would lay the blame.
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Ultimately thats the problem, in particular too many modems per service group, but also that isnt fat enough pipes at the docsis level as well. Any setup that has a customer able to use more than half of a shared pipe is going to be fragile even at 2:1 contention.