On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chris Watt wrote:
> At 03:10 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Balazs Wellisch wrote:
> >Don't even attempt to do web hosting on a cable modem. You may get T1 one
> >speeds downstream but you only get 128K upstream. Not nearly enough for web
> >hosting.
>
> I think you're jumping to conclusions, cable modem systems differ from
> place to place. Personally I get 5Mbit/s downstream and I don't know
> exactly how much but certainly more than 1.5Mbit/s upstream (meaning it is
> AFAICT faster than a T1 in either direction and I haven't been told
> anything about it being asynchronous) with my cable modem. If I wanted to
> fork out more money I'm told I would get 10Mbps both ways with a "business"
> account.
>
Further your bandwidth can vary a LOT depending on how many
of your neighbors are on-line as well. Since you're sharing
the bandwidth, you're dependant on your neighbors NOT to
eat it all up!
John
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