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To: ggamer who wrote (5218)	1/14/2000 12:21:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 13582

>> Would the same thing be true for HDR? No, because bandwidth is infinite w. (apologies in advance for my flip answer)

To: ggamer who wrote (5218)	1/14/2000 12:50:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13582

It is a single channel at 2.4 Mbps and everyone shares that load. The carrier makes the determination of how many "POPS" they will service with a single channel. So if they decide that they will only have a single channel in a 15 mile circle, then they would be able to handle a couple of hundred poeple on that with varying loads. @HOME and RoadRuner also can dial in how fast your home service is by setting up local repeaters. My neighborhood has a very high concentration of modems and in the evening at about 6:30-8:00 it gets loaded very high. Roadrunner comes out about every 6 months and splits the network one more time to keep us at a good rate. I would say that it runs about 200k peak now in the evening. the basic channel is about 1.5 Mbps. when they let it get loaded, it gets down to like 100k or less. After a week or so of that, I usually call and let them know the loading is unacceptable and they sned someone out ot rebalance the loading. In the beggining on RR, there was one drop in our entire area and there were about 10 of us on in a 10 mile radius. I almost always got 500k or better. As the demand grew and the number of customers grew, they added more local drops and the speed has been fairly constant. I would expect that if there are people who are paying for enough packets to justify 2.4 Mbps HDR service, then the carrier will install pico base-stations on the street light poles which can service an ever smaller area. this way they can build out the network as the demand and load grows.