From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 14 20:54:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B262F16A400 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58101.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58101.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69AA713C428 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 41846 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Jul 2007 20:54:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=1L4SdIvIA4PnUbTGYtEq5vroo8Ux6Z0uZU9hN10gCK7lsU+pahNQvxczqogbyAayO2k+cPFM0sdu6ovz0jL/xljEvMyEwCUh3TKyPtw+ybcJvA3Xh8eKUuJHbIh8xA1by7iXMbL4RKsVC8mt4N8hQBnfb6g53bN6kVm44Uet8O0=; X-YMail-OSG: Otk9k6MVM1l1fNeyupchB8GG5F0BRHeTHyr7bdch5kuoYaD.d_MbnSo67foBtRoE4f9q0z64TxvC1g4T3ohzf9zyEn3WWoxQx8y6 Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58101.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:54:10 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: Sten Daniel Soersdal , fbsd2@a1poweruser.com In-Reply-To: <469775C9.7090202@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <773481.39823.qm@web58101.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: 10Mbps versus 100Mbps Cable Modems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:54:11 -0000 They probably did it because the number of subscribers has increased to the point that they need to start limiting bandwidth to ensure that everyone gets their fair share. They probably allowed subscribers to exceed their allotted max bandwidth while the number of subscribers was sufficiently low that they did not have to worry about it. Now that they have a lot of subscribers, they have to worry about it. --- Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > fbsd2 wrote: > > Comclark cable in Angeles City Philippines has > changed > > from using 100Mbps Cable Modem to 10Mbps Cable > Modem. > > To me this seems to be all wrong as all I see is > slower response. > > Is there any technical or performance reason for > any cable internet > > provider to downgrade their network subscribers > cable modems > > from 100Mbps to 10Mbps? > > That reason could be compatibility. > > If you see slower response then perhaps something is > wrong. > Perhaps you should call their support and verify > that you do not have a > mismatched duplex setting? > > Mismatched duplex can come from misbehaving > autonegotiation or that one > end is set to full-duplex while the other end is set > to half-duplex, or, > one end is set to full-duplex and the other end is > set to auto-negotiate > (which results in falling back to half-duplex). > > -- > Sten Daniel Soersdal > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz