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Originally Posted by fraz
But given the vastly different technologies between cable & copper wire based adsl I would imagine its technically not practicable for the cable companies (ntl,telewest,wightcable,kingston etc) to 'unbundle the local loop' in the same way that BT can for ADSL technology.
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Originally Posted by fraz
At the risk of appearing to repeat myself I dont believe (and I'm sure someone out there knows the technology better) that its technologically feasible for Cable companies to open up their networks in the same manner as BT has done.
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Originally Posted by fraz
Youre confusing two seperate issues.
1> Opening up cable companies networks to allow other providers to supply competition
2> Raw Connection Speed
The answer you quoted referred to 1 .
As regards 2 then yes it is a (relatively) simple matter to rewrite the config files etc to give whatever combination of maximum downstream/upstream you like . It could be 2 Mb/512k or 2Mb/256k , it could even be 1.75Mb/350k or 4Mb/1mb however are we likely to see such service levels being offered in the near future? Judging by answers elsewhere in the past I very much doubt it
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U R wrong Farz.
Its called Opencable see
http://www.opencable.com/ and it alredy happens in the US. Roadrunner operates on networks as well as the network's own ISP for example Comcast. Each ISP just uses a different TV channel slot because Digital is more efficient you get several Digital channels in the space of one Analogue so they have freed up analogue channels.
When Telewest launch their Ethernet over coax (not docsys) service it will give switched symmetrical services of 10MBPS.