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Originally Posted by pinoy3000  ye but i can notice the difference. sometimes the speed goes down to 2mb on certain occasion. |
Thats the nature of cable internet, it is a shared medium. You basically 'share' bandwidth with your neighbors that are on the same node. DSL is different in that each line to the gateway or CO is a dedicated line. The bottleneck with DSL is after it hits the gateway/CO, and is on the trunks.... This issue is with all forms of internet, cable & DSL, that aren't expensive leased lines... The problem is 'overbooking'. Every ISP does it. They will have a pipe, lets say it's 1.5 Meg, and they will provision 3.0 - 4.5 Megs worth of circuits across it (200% - 300% overbooking). It is on the basis that not every circuit will be utilized 100% all of the time. I doubt an ISP would tell you about overbooking and if any trouble you have is due to it, but you can ask.