Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 19:33:48 AKST
I humbly defer to THE cable god, Chris.... after all, it's his network ;)
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <thogland@alaskatech.org>
To: "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@gci.net>
Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: 22 January, 2002 13:48
Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
>
> 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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