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Re: [OM] OT Internet connection speed

Subject: Re: [OM] OT Internet connection speed
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:42:04 -0800
> From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> "Broadband" over phone line is DSL, and much, much slower than cable 
> broadband.

As with all questions of moderate or greater complexity, the correct answer is, 
"It depends."

For DSL, your bandwidth to your local switch is the full bandwidth you 
purchase. At the telco switch, you will most likely have your own port on a 
router, giving you more-or-less fixed bandwidth.

With cable, although it may be true that the absolute bandwidth of the medium 
is greater than with DSL, you may share a network segment with thousands of 
other households -- you don't have a dedicated line into a router. So at 3AM, 
you may perform much better than DSL, but at 7PM, when everyone on your network 
segment is all hitting Netflix at the same time, it may well slow to a crawl, 
while the DSL line is still humming at near-capacity.

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