[PLUG-TALK] Comcast web space changes

[Ronald Chmara]

On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, alan wrote:
>> To make matters worse, if you are on Comcast, you share bandwidth
>> with everyone on your block. If I have DSL that is 3mbs download,
>> that is for my connection alone.  If you have the same with Comcast,
>> the whole block you live on shares that chunk of bandwidth.
> Are you intimating that Comcast limits an entire neighborhood to the
> shared value of the slowest customer's bandwidth? That's what it
> sounds like, and it's rubbish.

Throughput for a group of neighbors is limited to the total capacity  
of the shared line used by those neighbors.

> For broadband accounts, the slow part of your connection (or I should
> say, the bottleneck that will give you less bandwidth than your
> account promises) is almost always the intersection between your
> provider's network and the wider Internet. My understanding is that he
> home-ISP connection is rarely the culprit.

Throughput for a group of neighbors is limited to the total capacity  
of the shared line used by those neighbors.
Throughput for a group of comcast customers is limited to the total  
capacity of the shared line used by those customers.

This is not a debate, this is math.

-Bop