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Old 07-02-2006, 20:13   #53
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Re: Check This Out - ntl 100Mbps

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Originally Posted by Ignition
I am actually astonished that people expect a connection like this to be anything but saturated at peak times.

Ask someone on Bredbandsbolaget Sweden or NTTK fibre in Japan how often they see 100Mbit or anywhere near

The PON networks they run on split 622Mbit downstream and only 155Mbit between 32 homes. Server 100Mbit down each of those, well, you can see the issues.

As the max speeds go up, so the % of that max speed you can expect to reliably get goes down.
the question id ask from this UPTO speed will they set a minimum Quality of service (which i think they should do with the 10mbit but maybe they cant atm) so you are gurranteed a certian minimum speed?

instead of selling it as 100mbit if they sold it as 4mbit (100mbit burstable) or something like that people wouldnt be able to complain when they didn't hit 100mbit.

like instead of doing Upto 10mbit why dont they make it 3mbit burstable to 10 or something so then everyone gets a steady 3mbit but if theres more available bandwith it goes faster...?
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