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Originally Posted by obvious
True - when a UBR is saturated then every user will receive a proportionately degraded service. If user x is not getting a degraded download speed then neither is anybody else.
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I agree with what you are saying to an extent though individual users may have tweaked their systems to cope better with the situation. NTL have been quite good at making sure that users do not suffer the effects of contention. There are quite a number of users who think that if they are not getting the full speed of their connection that there is a problem that must be fixed. Any contended service is bound to have periods when degradation of speed starts to occur. The problem is that as speeds get higher and higher it is more difficult and costly to prevent this degradation in speed. BT have made this point several times during the run up to their 8Mbps trials. They say that customers who are lucky enough to get the full 8Mbps during quiet times will be lucky to get above 2Mbps peak time.