From: "Geo." 

As the bandwidth increases it matters less and less because you can't keep
the pipe slammed. For example with 4.5mb I can download a 350mb TV show in
about 12 minutes.

It's like in the days of slow computers, we used to wait and wait so faster
systems were a big improvement. But at some point we find that most of our
cpu time now is spent doing nothing. Bandwidth works like that, after a
certain point, it's just for faster more immediate response, not because
you use it all the time.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:40:46 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>Besides, I know what the limit is, they claim to have fiber to the dslam
>>but
>>in reality they are using a channelized ds3 with just 3 T1 lines available
>>for data (which explains the 4.5mb limit btw) so they don't even have the
>>capacity to support one 6mb line let alone a whole dslam full of users..
>
>  That makes me wonder what the overall feed size is necessary to serve
> 1000 users with 100 Mbit service.  Or do they just pipe in a 1G line and
> let everyone fight it out?

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