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  • From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Satellite Connections
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:48:47 -0500

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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