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etccarmageddon · 22-10-2003, 15:44

no Bob it aint that!!!

it's cos with ADSL your contention is futher away from the exchange... so you're sharing a larger pipe with a larger number of users. e.g. instead of 200 people sharing a 10mb pipe you'd be 2000 people sharing a 100mb pipe....

so the amount of bandwidth is proportionally the same but as you are sharing it with a larger number of users, the effects of 'band width hogs' are less.

e.g. on your 200 user pipe, if 25% of your users are bandwidth hogs, you're more likely to feel this than if you were on a 2000 user pipe with 25% band width hogs.

(I think!)

22-10-2003, 15:44	#7
etccarmageddon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 5,638	Re: NTL contention ratio no Bob it aint that!!! it's cos with ADSL your contention is futher away from the exchange... so you're sharing a larger pipe with a larger number of users. e.g. instead of 200 people sharing a 10mb pipe you'd be 2000 people sharing a 100mb pipe.... so the amount of bandwidth is proportionally the same but as you are sharing it with a larger number of users, the effects of 'band width hogs' are less. e.g. on your 200 user pipe, if 25% of your users are bandwidth hogs, you're more likely to feel this than if you were on a 2000 user pipe with 25% band width hogs. (I think!)