t1 versus cabel/modem

[Erik Heil]

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Hi,
Sorry, but I haven't been keeping up on this thread, so my information may
be a little redundant.  T1, and cable are two totally different
technoligies.  T1 is dedicated bandwidth and is symetrical, where as ADSl
and cable asymetrical.  For example, right now I'm on a 1.5mbps/256K ADSL
line.  I have no problem accessing 700Kb RealMedia streams, even can select
the T1 option on various kinds of streaming media from my Winblows box.  In
all though, it depends on what speed the site or service you're trying to
connect can have, and whether they use QoS (quality of service) data to
limit bandwidth to certain daemons. i.e. httpd, ProFTPD, etc. Hope this
helps.
- --Erik
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From: "monte single" <mrsingle at shaw.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: t1 versus cabel/modem


> Thanks for the details, i'll stick with the cable.
>
> Bear in SFO wrote:
>
> > If my memory serves me, cable actually runs at T3 speed but you will
have
> > to share with your neighbors...  So for a while if all the people in
your
> > apartment building use their cable at the same time you get zip, but if
> > nobody use it you get the whole T3...  the cable people get smart and
put a
> > filter on it so you can never get any faster than maybe 2Mbit/s...
> >
> > ADSL on the other hand is 1.5Mbit/s and you don't share the line with
> > anyone else but you depends on your ISP - if their servers goes down
you're
> > SOOL until they can fix it...
> >
> > T1 is guaranteed because it puts you right onto the internet, and you
are
> > on your own once you are on it...
> >
> > Does this help?
> >
> > --David
> >
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