Thread: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:34   #1320
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Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase
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Originally Posted by Rone
Well we all know adsl drops over distance, its not the same with cable surely?
No but maintaining high speeds gives more congestion. Think of the pipe from your house to the network as a lane on a motorway. Now NTL have just changed the speed limit sticker, so now instead of doing 30 mph you can do 100mph. Now a congested road with everyone doing 30 results in everyone moving along steadily at 30 and getting there in the end. If you try to drive at 100mph on the motorway (before you get nicked) you will find you regularly have to slow to 60-70 when slower moving traffic (or in a network scenareo - traffic) is in front of you. Hence up to 10Mb. You should find at 3am when no-one else is on the road / network you can easily keep to 100mph / 10Mb, but at 6pm when everyone is going home there is no chance, even though the speed limit says it is OK to do so.
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