[vm_tech]

I both agree and disagree with you. The bottle neck is the CMTS port, but you are correct in saying that the number of homes connected to the node affects this. The network I work on has a few different designs, the earlier stuff was 2100 home build, which a few years back had new fibres to break it down to 525 build. The rest of the stuff was 525 build originally. DWM has recently been used to push the node deeper into the network in my area (replacing an RF amp). So effectively the main node has another node running off of it, which has its own CMTS port