DSL Trouble

[grohgreg]

Point those boneheads to
their own website

: specifically to the DSL vs Cable paragraph

//greg//

[eurosport]

Point those boneheads to
their own website

: specifically to the DSL vs Cable paragraph

//greg//

I specifically mentioned the difference between cable and DSL when he mentioned over-usage, and he said it can happen with this too. I call BS here. It is still slow this morning, when usually the problem clears the next day, so maybe they will fix the offending part of the system this time. Hopefully.

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[Hbondy]

Just my 2 cents here...

First, the D in DSL stands for Digital, not dedicated, as in digital subscriber line. Second, the concept of shared vs dedicated really has more to do with the carrier's peering, interconnects and backhaul than it does with the actual line that comes to your home either by coax or twisted pair copper (dsl).

For instance, the line speed on a particular line might me 5Mb but if there are 1000 users all attached to the same single connection point from carrier x to the "internet" and they are all downloading at once and that interconnect is only 1Gb, each user will see only 1Mb throughput. All of the Internet is one big aggregated model. That's how it works. It really does not matter if it's dsl or cable (cable has much better capacity for bandwidth than dsl). What matters is the backhaul and peering to support all of those users at once.

[eurosport]

1. I would like to thank all of you who responded with suggestions and help. The members here are what makes this place as great as it is.
2. I didn't know a DSL filter could go bad, just enough to slow you down, but not stop you!
...but that's what I found tonight.