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Originally Posted by FusionXN1
And yes my point proven 20:1 contention and in the custom pc mag it says about people down 1 street share a certain amount of bandwidth etc..
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Sorry mate but I think you need to read up a bit on contention ratios
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The "contention ratio" is the number of customers that share one unit of data capacity
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The operative words here are one unit of data capacity. Not one fibre
A single fibre can feed between 200 and 600 homes. Going on an estimated penetration of 25% thats between 50 and 150 other customers. The bandwidth laid down by the DOCCIS protocols are 27MB on the Langely platform or 36MB on the Bromley platform. In simple terms that's per fibre or as we said that 50 to 150 other customers. Contention ratios aren't anywhere as simple as that though but I don't want to take away the wonders of google for you
Another thing to remember is not to confuse network bandwidth with upload or download speeds. Oh and never believe the media
In answer to your original question working for em I'm biased but personally I've had less problems over the last few years than most of my mates who are on BT or the various other providers