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["Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>]

Ken Pugh wrote:
> I know someone who's tried satellite.  They're up in Maine.  The 
> connection works fine if nobody else is on.  It bogs down to less than 
> dialup speed in the middle of the day.
>
> Cable has the same problem when there are lots of connections on a 
> trunk, but it's probably much less noticeable since the total bandwidth 
> is a lot higher.

Modern cablemodem systems shouldn't degrade in service like this as long 
as a the cable operator has free channels in the cable physical plant to 
devote to data bandwidth and the upstream network is big enough to 
handle the load.

The "shared bandwidth" issue with cablemodems was corrected some time ago.

--[Lance]

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