OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK

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When asked his whereabouts on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:38:53PM -0500, GCC
Consulting took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> Mark,
>
> As you are aware, I have Cablevision's broadband service which is fiber
> to the house.
>
> My downstream connection speed is better then 5 Mbs.  However, today I am
> running a bit slow, 1.6Mbs.  More then likely it will be back to "normal"
> a bit later in the evening.

Right, but you're subject to the segment's limitations on cable.  During
peak hours you can get really downgraded performance.

Now, the same is true of DSL, with the ATM cloud (which it is, more or
less...) at the DSLAM.  However, it's far less likely to show significant
impact compared to cable from the people with whom I've spoken on the
subject.  Probably the most you'd ever drop on DSL -should- be about
20KB/sec.  I've never seen a drop more than 10 that wasn't explainable by
other factors (weather, etc.).  Cable...I've heard people say their 3mbit
cable drops down to as slow as a v.90 modem.  :(

And then there's my brother's university.  Oh boy.  He said downloading
and definitely gaming performance used to be okay, but things went to
hell.  Looking at their route, I can see why.  They come into the main
state-wide network and his particular university is THREE whole ATM clouds
in from that level, including going through one other university's main ATM
cloud--and if any of them is congested, everything downstream of the log
jam gets hosed.  Their "network engineers" need their heads examined.  I'm
surprised you can get -anything- through to them, honestly.  The topography
was -not- pretty.

mark->
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