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Old 11-18-2011, 09:30 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26 View Post
DSL works on a different topology and perhaps shaw has never changed just due to logistics... DSL connections go directly to each home from the demarcation point. There is no adverse affect from your neighbor downloading the bit torrent Jenna Jameson freeleech pack. It does not affect you and once the data hits the the fiber optic demarcation point there is no chance its maxing out the network capacity.
There's still finite bandwidth to the demarcation point, so it can still be saturated.

Regardless of topology, it's still an aggregate structure where each layer has less available bandwidth than the layer above, by necessity.

It still comes down to having adequate infrastructure to support the # of users downstream.

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Cable will always be burst faster but never be as consistent.
Simply untrue, unless you can give a technical reason why?
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