Thanks for the explanation.
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On 1/18/2011 6:42 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: John Hermanson<omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> "Broadband" over phone line is DSL, and much, much slower than cable
>> broadband.
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> As with all questions of moderate or greater complexity, the correct answer
> is, "It depends."
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> For DSL, your bandwidth to your local switch is the full bandwidth you
> purchase. At the telco switch, you will most likely have your own port on a
> router, giving you more-or-less fixed bandwidth.
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> With cable, although it may be true that the absolute bandwidth of the medium
> is greater than with DSL, you may share a network segment with thousands of
> other households -- you don't have a dedicated line into a router. So at 3AM,
> you may perform much better than DSL, but at 7PM, when everyone on your
> network segment is all hitting Netflix at the same time, it may well slow to
> a crawl, while the DSL line is still humming at near-capacity.
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