Subject: RE: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Christopher Erickson (cerickson@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 08:07:05 AKST
Actually each modem will get it's own 512/128k.
If you get a Nexland Pro 800 Turbo router (great product, lousy name), it can
safely "shotgun" two cable modems, with some limitations.
-Christopher Erickson
Network Design Engineer II
GCI Internet
2550 Denali St., Suite 1000
Anchorage, AK 99503
907-777-6725
www.gci.com
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Scott Johnson
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:16 PM
To: Tom
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
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.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <thogland@alaskatech.org>
To: "Jim Gribbin" <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: 21 January, 2002 20:54
Subject: RE: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
>
> On 21 Jan 2002, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> > And these people only have 1 ASC internet modem or device connected to
> > the line. It doesn't say I cann't connect more than 1 device to that 1
> > modem, just multiple devices to the line.
> >
> > Does GCI let you connect multiple cable modems to their line? Or are you
> > using 1 cable modem with multiple devices connected to the modem (not
> > the line).
>
> Another note to this (besides the bridging issues) is that the bandwidth
> is set at the head-end, not at the modem, so taking your 512k cable modem
> and adding a second on gets you two modems with a total throughput of
> 512k. It does fix the 8-device issue, though, at least by adding another 8
> to it :-)
>
>
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