Uncapped Bandwidth good or bad thing?

[Beryllium9]

It's worth noting as well that uncapping won't neccessarily give you the bandwidth you say you should be getting. If the area you live in is oversubscribed, contention is the likely problem. DOCSIS cable modems have a shared bandwidth of 33Mbps downstream and 10Mbps upstream per channel. This means that it could only support 16 customers with a 2000/384K service before contention comes into play. It would be unfeasible to have a CMTS for every 16 customers due to costs, so all cable companies will have between 20 and 100 times this number of subscribers per CMTS.

The only real solution is to either change ISP/cable company, or hope they see the frustration they're causing their customers with their greed, and resegment their network to reduce contention.

[XoN-ASSIM]

Yep I love it. I only pay $50 a month for 802.11b wireless access. So I guess I cant complaind that much except that my upload sorta sucks(I get like 25kbytes). Aslo I called them up and they told me I am not capped just limited upload wise. So I'll have to figure out a deal with them. And no im not promoting illegal activity! lol I just think that if you are capped and its not part of the contract then you can uncap yourself...(tyring not to get myself into trouble, kinda got suspended a few times at school for "hacking"). For those who dont know what the term "hacker" really means i suggest you go to www.dictionary.com and look it up.

[amorphous]

I'll not complain about my service again anytime soon after reading these posts...I whine when I'm only getting 700kb I have a DSL connection rated as 1100 down/384 up...here are the most recent speed tests I've run @ dslreports.com

Speed test (la) 1101/1150 kbps
Speed test (ec) 1070/1132 kbps
Speed test (la) 1098/1149 kbps
Speed test (ec) 1066/1136 kbps
Speed test (la) 1065/1150 kbps
Speed test (ec) 1065/1043 kbps
Speed test (la) 1102/1154 kbps
Speed test (ec)1040/1673 kbps
Speed test (la) 1102/1154 kbps
Speed test (la) 1082/1154 kbps
Speed test (ec) 1044/1145 kbps

Apparently they slipped up and forgot to restrict the upload speeds.

[ruready]

I think you'd better asked the provider first. Maybe they have many customers.
so they have to shared their bandwidth.

ciaooo.

[ammo]

People, I think there is some comfusion in this thread related to bits and bytes...
Remember, bit is with a lowercase "b", and byte with a uppercase "B"
ie: Kilobit = kb, kilobyte = kB... Kbps = Kilobit/second, KBps (or more often "KB/s") = Kilobyte second... same thing for megabits/megabytes...

Of course 8 bits = 1 bytes, so a 2Mbps connection will give you a max transfer rate of 256KB/s

Remember that :
connection speeds (ie: ISP advertised bandwidth) are measured in Kilo/Mega bits per second,
transfer speeds (ie: Web browser or ftp client shown speed) are measuered in Kilo/Mega bytes per second.

So don't forget to do the conversion (bits -> bytes: divide by 8, bytes -> bits: multiply by 8).

And also, bauds aren't exactly the same as bps:
"Baud was the prevalent measure for data transmission speed until replaced by a more accurate term, bps (bits per second). One baud is one electronic state change per second. Since a single state change can involve more than a single bit of data, the bps unit of measurement has replaced it as a better expression of data transmission speed" [SearchNetworking.com]


This surely is known stuff to many of you but it can be really confusing if you don't know it.


Ammo

[VictorKaum]

lol,
Ammo, like Isabyon said at the start of the thread, and like I repeated in the middle of the thread...
anyway good reminder cause many people seem to confuse those numbers thinking a 3Mbit connection will give them 3000kB ...
so, indeed no, it does not.

post #20