[NCLUG] Re: DSL Throttling or General Congestion?

[Michael Milligan]

Ben West wrote:
> the fact is, DSL is and always will be a shared-access medium, it would be
> fraudulent for them to sell you a higher service level, considering they

There are minimal options here in a rural setting (10 miles north of 
Fort Fun).

I'm sure they'd sell me 6Mbps service if they maxed out the RT here to 
have 4 T1's into the ATM cloud...  but that hasn't happened.  The only 
reason I keep calling is the hope that they will do that even though I 
wouldn't buy (add a couple more T1's to max it out, or install a 
different card to provision more upstream...  I do know that fiber 
terminates out here in the same pedestal.)  Then contention would be a 
non-issue... that would make it approximately 6:1 over-subscribed and 
I'd be very happy.  I'm guessing it's around 12:1 over-subscribed today 
(~24 households, 2xT1 up).  I get all 1.5Mbps to myself during the work 
day, it just gets bad in the evenings/night.  No surprise there.

>  perhaps if you need more
> bandwidth, you should find out if they have any dedicated-access options
> available?

There is an option.  It's called Dazbog North (a coffee shop).  And a 
couple other places in/near Old Town that I'm not going to name which 
have high-bandwidth wireless when I need it.  ;-)

Regards,
Mike

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