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Originally Posted by Ignition
You'd be surprised how well this actually works, just to remind services will be capped, which helps, could easily enough be traffic shaped to protect real time services, and I've seen services working quite well with over 200 modems on a 256QAM downstream, as high as 1000 infact, these modems mostly being 5.5Mbps/640kbps and 10Mbps/1Mbps.
Usage patterns do vary though, some cards have 200 modems on them and average less than 4Mbps downstream throughput, others get nearly maxed on the same number of modems now.
The joys of capacity planning, capping the 10Mbps will help a lot though, TW will get slaughtered in student areas especially, such as for example Leicester with De Montford, etc in that area 
If it's any comfort to you a load of new kit has gone into Leicester, it's now one of the best provisioned areas for bandwidth per modem on the network if not the best, and more to come, so relax! |
So although Leics is docsis with the upgrades it has tons of them now I guess. I dont know how much area one ubr covers, but I am in a residental family area but only couple of streets away from the student houses.
I can see your point about telewest with uncapped 10mbit, the thought is a lot more scary for them, unmetered speeds I feel should be lower. So time will tell what happens.