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Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee
Don't forget to check and see how many people in the neighborhood are using it when it slows down.  |
Hi Swamp Yankee!
You could very well be right about this in terms of Metrocast since I do not know their topology or their service very well. In today's network environment, however, traffic shaping is usually employed in such a way so that all users on a street will not be impacted by one or two "bandwidth" hogs. Traffic shaping is also how large corporations make data and voice service co-exist on the same physical network links (AKA Voice Over IP). Voice traffic is very delay sensitive and data traffic can withstand delay. Same type of tech is employed in many of today's ISP networks to gaurantee a quality of service to each user.