ADSL speeds

[Stephen Austin]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is the wrong group.
What I would like to know is this - if I have an ADSL connection from home
of, say, 512kb, what does the contention ration of 50:1 mean?
Does it mean that I could end up sharing the 512kb/s bandwidth 50 ways? And
getting 10kb/s?
If this is the case, would the bandwidth get split evenly? Or if person X
who shares the line, downloads huge movies constantly, will they steal the
majority of the bandwidth?

TIA,

Steve

 

[kony]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is the wrong group.
What I would like to know is this - if I have an ADSL connection from home
of, say, 512kb, what does the contention ration of 50:1 mean?
Does it mean that I could end up sharing the 512kb/s bandwidth 50 ways? And
getting 10kb/s?
If this is the case, would the bandwidth get split evenly? Or if person X
who shares the line, downloads huge movies constantly, will they steal the
majority of the bandwidth?

TIA,

Steve

It does mean the bandwidth is shared 50 ways, but it's unlikely that
you'd be limited to even 1/10 of that (at least not by other users
hogging bandwidth). Typical users are not always downloading movies.
Further, such high-demand, "servers" are usually the bottleneck,
especially in the typical P2P applications, not your end of the
connection.


Dave