From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 23:14:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75B6F37BCE5 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 25018 invoked by uid 1074); 13 Apr 2000 06:14:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:14:48 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200004130455.e3D4tqO23936@cytosine.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > P.S I am in a very new area, so the connections here are really good. > The only bad part is that they cap upstream to 256kilobits/sec, wrather > than the no caps that I've seen in other areas. That may be the case. I am also in a low use area. I'm not sure which cable service you have but AT&T installs a hardware governer in the cable box outside of your house. This governer is designed to filter digital cable to the TV and Internet access at your cable modem and keep the signals organised (so they say). It also has another purpose, to limit your downstream to 1.5Mbits/sec. The AT&T neighborhood nodes are 4.5Mbit pipes which gets shared out to everyone in your neighborhood who also has the 1.5 governer installed. If you're using another service besides AT&T I wouldn't know how they're handling people sucking up all the bandwidth from the neighborhood node. But I can assure you that you do have some kind of governer on your line to keep you under the "speed limit" :) I didn't mention in the earlier response that this was form AT&T Residential service. Commercial would be a whole different story. David Software Eng. - NetManage Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu ICQ 21106703 Washington State Resident To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message