Connection ratio Chris?
Does that mean how many are connected at the same time to the same whatsa ma call it....( forgot the name). I thought only applied to Cable internet?
Bartman
Contention. You're sharing your connection with plenty of other people. If everyone is online after they get home from work or school, then you compete for bandwidth.
1. Your maximum bit rate is inversly proportinonal to the length of cable from your exchange. and the S/N ratio at about 5 Km is just about unity so many more packets need to be sent to resolve the data that is spoilt. ADSL2 has a maximum rate of about 20Mb/s but when converted to MB of data there is overhead to be taken care of so if you get 1.2MB/s be thankful and don't complain. The cable is "yours" and not shared.
2. The server in the exchange has a limited bandwidth that needs to be shared with all the subscribers to that ISP so going by the price of your service you can get a rough idea of how many subscribers the ISP calls a full load. If all are on at the same time you will probably get close to dial up speeds.
3. Before the data gets to your exchange it has to go through a lot more bottlenecks that have bandwitdth limitations. Spammers take up an awful lot of bandwidth.
4. If you have a wirless connection para. 2 also applies.
5. The NBN is not going to change most of this without you paying a lot of money for full fibre. Fibre also has a bandwidth limitation which I am sure we will eventually exceed some time.
My speed has a maximum of 570 KB/s but this is only achieved from major Web sources. Last week I downloaded a driver from Acer at less than 10KB/s. had to leave it run all night to get 100MB.
