Travis, please fix your quoting. That is, use Reply, not Forward, when
replying to posts.
More follows below:
Travis wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Meyer
[...]
Does someone have data to suggest that there is a real advantage
to having more than four connections?
From the Giganews web page:
"Speeds as Fast as Your Connection
Every Giganews account features unlimited download speed. Whether you
have a 10Mbps or 1000Mbps connection, our Usenet servers will max out
your connection. Unlimited speed means unlimited speed. Test your
connection speed with our speed tester."
I think you have missed the point though. All that bit of advertising
claims is that, *whatever speed you have*, Giganews can take advantage
of all of it. It doesn't imply anything about the value of more connections.
More connections are only valuable when the provider applies a
per-connection throttle which is less than your total bandwidth. If your
total bandwidth is (say) 100Mbps, which will be a hard limit applied by
your ISP, or possibly a physical limit imposed by the laws of physics
and your modem, then adding additional connections won't increase that.
If your news provider throttles connections to 10Mbps, then 4
connections give you a total of 40Mbps used and 60 unused, and 10
connections would give you 100Mbps used and zero unused. But 20
connections *still* gives you 100Mbps used, because that's the hard
limit from your ISP and/or modem -- adding more connections once you
have saturated the available bandwidth just slows them all down.
--
Steven
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