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To: GraceZ who wrote (2240)	3/6/2001 8:27:03 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Grace, These reasons are true of ALL connections and are not unique to cable. The unique situation in cable is the last mile which is shared. Inadequate capacity planning at this level can cause issues. As a case in point: A local provider in Raleigh that I was monitoring had up to 4mb on download for a while, as service expanded it degraded in some neighborhoods to between 100kb and 1 mb. After experiencing a number of complaints the system was retuned and, most importantly, re-provisioned to handle the load and service moved back into the target band of 1.2 to 2mb. A DSL provider I am monitoring in the same area has dedicated bandwidth to the home, but had oversubscribed uplinks between CO's and their POP for Internet connectivity. This caused significant degradation during busy periods until it was addressed. Its very hard to generalize... John