You've both gone off on a tangent and completely missed the point it seems.
Yes, 8 channels is double the capacity of 4 channels. But no single user can even fill 3 channels let alone 4, plus simply because one person has a 4 channel modem does not reduce the entire network down to a 4 channel bottleneck. The maximum any user can use right now is about 2.5 channels anyway. 2.5 out of 4 is exactly the same as 2.5 out of 8 - it's still 2.5.
Taking your scenario, while hypothetically several Ambit users are demanding full speed from their 120Mbit services simultaneously via the same 4 channels of an 8 channel set, while presumably the other 4 channels remain empty, then that just means the CMTS' load balancing setup is broken. Getting a million channel modem won't unbreak it.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Just one user could saturate more than half of the available bandwidth 4 channels provides. If you happen to be on the same 4 channels, then what?
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What exactly do you see as the problem here?
Say the network has 8 channels.
You're on channels 1-4. Someone else is on channels 1-4. Channels 1-4 get heavily loaded.
You get load balanced onto channels 5-8. Problem solved.