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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The number of DS channels is not a function of the tier you are on. VM aim that everyone will have 8 DS channels so that eventually you can hit 200 meg or more (8 channels supports 400 megs but SNR has to be high all the time and thy'll have to resegment so as to avoid serious congestion).
Two US channels allow up to 40 meg at current modulation but the frequenxy is noise sensitive which makes it tricky increase the bit density (modulation increase from 16QAM).
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I'm glad they're trying to put EVERYONE on the same number of DS channels. It just makes sense, really. Technically, there's no real limit to the number of channels they can have though, is there? I mean the SH itself might be a limitation, but DOCSIS3 doesn't have a hard limit or anything, I don't think.
I wonder if new hardware would be required to go above 8 DS channels. If it is, I'd imagine they'd just roll out DOCSIS3.1 hardware instead.
200Meg would be nice, if only because it would be 120Meg under STM :p