On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:40 +1300, Philip D'Ath wrote:

> There's been some talk about how the 128Kb/s upstream limits the
> maximum
> performance. However, the problem is actually much more severe,
> especially when many users sit behind such a link. Very quickly you
> reach the point where even a small business can't possibly use the
> 2Mb/s
> which they are paying for.

I've seen thesame thing.

My daughter "discovered" Limewire....and left the thing running 24/7.

She had downloaded some very popular files (I've had a TALK with
her)....and they were being uploaded all the time.

This choked the upward link......slowing everything down.

Everything still worked - but the delay in response (becasue you
couldn't ask) was very noticeable.

I used to have 192 on Jetsream Plus and had only rarely noticed
contention on the upward link.

We have 5 PCs here sharing the one connection.

-- 
Steve Withers <swithers@mmp.org.nz>
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