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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (25414)7/11/1999 8:40:00 AM
From: RocketMan  Read Replies (1) of 41369
 
I doubt if it would have much effect on AOL, but it is not good for ATHM. Actually, the upload cap was publicized about six months ago, as I recall. The problem is that cable broadband shares bandwidth among several customers within the same neighborhood, so that one node can hog the bandwidth for others by uploading large amounts of data. I seem to recall there were some customers using ATHM for business purposes, and that caused them to limit their upload. All is not all it seems with broadband. Even if the cable industry were to provide high bandwidth feeds to each and every customer independently, they would still have a serious problem with choke points upstream.
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