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To: Carolyn who wrote (781)	10/30/2000 3:06:15 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1541

IT's not so much a question of loss of speed as a question of degradation of signal. Around here, ComCast has an amp every mile, perhaps less I do not recall. Now I do not know how the signal gets allocated, whether there is a limiter at the pole which modulates the amount of signal that is allowed to pass in order that load may be proportioned evenly. However, the issue (I think) is once it passes the D-Mark and enters the house. D-Mark being a term that originated with the telephone company. It's where your "ownership" of the wire starts and the telephone company's responsibility ends. Now to use a copper phone wire as an example, if you have say 4 phones in the house no problem. If you go to say 6 extensions of the same phone number with the ringers on each set turned on there may be too much impedance for the phone to ring when you have an incoming call. So what I am saying is, once the cable enters my house I have 7 devices on the cable, which (in theory) should reduce the quality of the signal. Not the speed, just the strength. With television it may go unnoticed. With data for the computers, however, it could result in dropped data or even a lack of data due to the weakness of the signal. I know a fellow who used to own a cable company around here before he sold it to ComCast. It may be a good idea to track him down and see what he has to say about it.