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To: E. Davies who wrote (14471)8/14/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: gpowell  Read Replies (2) of 29970
 
The advantage is any number of ISP's can coexist by using the same infrastructure. Under your senario what limits an ISP from not overloading the common network?

How can they overload it? The bandwidth you get is the bandwidth you pay for - the bandwidth will be efficiently used. DSL and wireless offerings will act as a user shunt if the bandwidth provided by the MSO's is not competitive in price/(mb/s).

I know you propose each user have limited bandwidth (an idea the public wont go for)

Cox@Home is already doing this - read the thread.

what is to stop them from selling more bandwidth than the lines can handle?

The ISP's don't control the bandwidth.
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