- contention
- Posted by Hopey on August 10th, 2003
Hi all I recommended a neighbour to join pipex and got a free month. Great I
thought but then started thinking am I cutting my own throat by having to
share the 50 to 1 contention will this make a diff when we are both online
together.
- Posted by Clive on August 11th, 2003
In article <3f36b4ed$0$18494$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>,
nohope@gmx.co.uk said...
the multimegabit connection from the exchange (from what I've been told,
other could probably explain much better than I can).
So at worst your not going to get 1/50 of 512/256 but something like
1/10 IIRC.
- Posted by Bob Eager on August 11th, 2003
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:28:13 UTC, CB <see@reply.to.field> wrote:
Few ISPs actually publish that figure.
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- Posted by K on August 11th, 2003
"chris" <see@reply.to.field> wrote in message
news:MPG.19a15f638f16ea219899b9@news.clara.net...
sort of,.. the 50:1 contention that BT quote is at your local exchange to
ATM cloud. Your ISP then contends you again when they decide how many users
it connects to its each pipe it has rented from BT. While ISPs will have no
problem telling you of the number and size of their pipes, you'll have a job
getting the numbers of subscibers connected to each one as it's entirely
their choice.
K
- Posted by Bob Eager on August 11th, 2003
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:08:52 UTC, chris <see@reply.to.field> wrote:
Yes, they publish the pipe capacity. They don't publish how many
customers are using it. So they don't publish the contention figure.
And there is contention both sides of the ISP (50:1/20:1 on the user
side, unknown on the backbone side).
My point was also that CB's comment is wrong - the 50:1 part *is* from
the local exchange to the ISP; thereafter most ISPs don't tell you what
provision they have made *per customer* - i.e. the contention on their
backbone pipes.
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- Posted by Graham in Melton on August 11th, 2003
Almost.
The contention if from the DSLAM rack to the nearest major trunk node.
Within BT's core optical network, there will be much more capacity but they
certainly don't plan contention in that area. The only place they plan it is
from the end of your circuit to the next big transport node.
"Backbone pipes" is a bit more complex than you might imagine.
On 11/8/03 9:19 pm, in article
176uZD2KcidF-pn2-JE0GN7hY4SXo@rikki.tavi.co.uk, "Bob Eager"
<rde42@spamcop.net> wrote:
- Posted by Bob Eager on August 11th, 2003
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:00:20 UTC, "K" <"kayjaybee"@clara.net> wrote:
A&A disclose theirs.
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PC Server 325*4; PS/2s 9585, 8595, 9595*2, 8580*3,
P70, PC/AT..
- Posted by Graham in Melton on August 11th, 2003
On 11/8/03 9:50 pm, in article
176uZD2KcidF-pn2-cCcdX03FRyrj@rikki.tavi.co.uk, "Bob Eager"
<rde42@spamcop.net> wrote:
have a wholesale deal for managed channels from another CLEC.
Either way its interesting as I've never heard of anyone declaring - very
enlightened !
- Posted by Bob Eager on August 11th, 2003
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:15:51 UTC, Graham in Melton <nospam@nospam.net>
wrote:
It's a bit indirect...but see this (near the bottom):
http://www.aaisp.net.uk/aa/infopack/contention.html
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PC Server 325*4; PS/2s 9585, 8595, 9595*2, 8580*3,
P70, PC/AT..
