Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 07:50:06 AKST
Yeah exactly. You're correct that each cable modem's speed is set at the
head-end controller, but if you have two seperate cable modems, they're both
going to get a seperate amout of bandwidth alloted to them (whatever speed
you're paying for.)
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <thogland@alaskatech.org>
To: "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@akghetto.com>
Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: 22 January, 2002 06:40
Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
>
> 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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