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To: E. Davies who wrote (10547)6/5/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: Benkea  Respond to of 29970
 
Eric:

"Benkea is assuming a fixed number of users spread among more ISP's. In that case the size of "the pipe" is irrelevant, the load would be the same."

Yes, that was my point exactly. I knew there was a non smart a-- way to answer to address my question, than the "you don't know jack, idiot" variety.

"Most people assume that more ISP's will bring more customers. I don't know to what extent that is the truth."

But more customers is the ultimate goal isn't it? I mean isn't ATHM "trying" to get all the homes passed signed up? Presumably, those who declined would have declined if AOL asked em or if ATHM did.



To: E. Davies who wrote (10547)6/5/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: ahhaha  Respond to of 29970
 
Is he? I don't think so, but what you mention is askew too. Ask Frank.

Why can't a user pull more bandwidth? In fact, that was the Fremont problem where one subnetter hogged the loop, so ATHM delimited the upstream. The downstream is inadequate anyway. Caching won't do it.


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