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To: Robert C. Hawkins who wrote (8326)	4/20/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: Clever Nick Name	Read Replies (2) of 29970

Any internet connection to a web site goes through a series of routers, switches and hosts. It's likely that the slower performance was the result of your connection passing through a uncluttered backbone connection while your friend's connection went through a different path that was bandwidth limited at some point. Internet routing is very difficult to predict and hardly ever optimal. When I connect to my computer at work (5 miles from home) The traffic is routed through a server in a city 250 miles from here. Some sites also choke the outgoing bandwidth on a per user basis so they can server more users simultaneously. It could also be there there is a problem with your friends cable connection. I've seen comments here and there about bandwidth problems due to things like video traps on the cable line. It is possible to be limited by the bandwidth on the local cable loop if there are a large number of active users on the same loop, but each cable modem's bandwidth is only a fraction of the bandwidth available on the cable loop so, I doubt this is the source of his problems. DSL does not have the loop problem since bandwidth is not shared from your computer to the local switch. However, in my area it's priced 50% higher than cable and offers only 10% of the upstream speed. Does anyone know about capacity limitations? A friend and I were discussing a web site last night; he was using ATHM and I was using a 56K modem. The cable seemed slower than the 56k modem. He explained the slowdown as part of the increasing use of the cable. If the cable capacity can "fill up," then does the service slow down? What about DSL? Happy investing. RCH

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