Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 13:48:56 AKST
I most humbly defer to the cable gods, Scott and Chris :-)
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
> 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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