Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 06:40:49 AKST
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Scott Johnson wrote:
> Umm... I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that if I have two cable
> modems (both doubled up at 512/128) and connect them to the same coax, I'm
> still only going to get 512k of service????
>
> Because I had 2 Platinum cable modems (1.5Mbit/256Kbit each) and had them
> both hooked up to my network and was able to download at 170Kbytes on one
> computer and then on another (with a different default gateway) start
> another download at 170Kbytes. In fact, I was even able to use download
> accelerator along with a proxy server and download at over 300Kbytes/sec.
That's the way it was explained to me. It does sound like you're getting
two 1.5Mb links, though, so maybe I got a bit of incorrect info...
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