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Sean

join:2004-01-23
Ottawa
·Bell Sympatico

reply to NeoThe1
Re: 3web - Sick of "unlimited download" claims yet

Nope, the lines are "rented" out, and as such are still the property of Shaw. Shaw dictates how much "strain" on the nodes a 3Web customer can put on. The "strain" comes from bandwidth use, so, Shaw controls how much bandwidth 3Web users can go through.

This isn't the case with DSL when 3Web sells it, because there's no "load problem" with DSL, as all bandwidth and hardware (except for DSLAMs and fibre/copper) is handled by 3Web.


Corvus
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said by Sean See Profile:

This isn't the case with DSL when 3Web sells it, because there's no "load problem" with DSL, as all bandwidth and hardware (except for DSLAMs and fibre/copper) is handled by 3Web.
The DSLAM is acting like the node for a HFC network, that's where's the bottleneck.
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