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> > > My understanding (please correct me if I am wrong) is that cable has
the
> > > capacity for 30Mb, no generally available DSL technology has that
> > > capacity though eventually who knows.
> >
> > Each cable modem is limited to 3Mbit, so if there is 10 simultanous
> > users on a segment, at least the segment is ok. If there is 200, you
> > have a problem.
>
> You seem to be assuming that the cable into your neighborhood is the same
as
> the cable into your home, do you know that to be the case?

The cable modem signals are merely occupying a certain bandwidth (frequency
range). Different sizes or types of cables only affects the attenuation of
this signal, so it is either working or not. It should not affect throughput
(barring no other inconsistencies or intermittent problems in the passive
and active equipment through the network).

As for the total capacity in Mbps, I am not sure what it is... :-)

-Steve.

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