can cable modems handle 5-6 MB's bandwidth?

[Fresh Daemon]

Google "Teleste". In Finland right now there are trials for a 100Mbps cable connection. They are expected to be rolled out on a general basis next year. The same technology isn't supposed to reach North America until 2007, sadly. Oh well - I guess there has to be an upside to sky-high European taxes (and I thought Canada was bad - you know you pay over 200% sales tax on a car in Denmark?)

 

[qaa541]

There is no doubt in my mind that cable is better than DSL. For one, cable does not require the huge amounts of equipment as ADSL. The cable infrastructure is so much simpler becuase one CMTS which is the size of maybe 2-3U of rack space can handle 6 D/S channels and 1 U/S which can support around 250 users. The ADSL equiptment is SOO expensive and bulky. This bulk is what prevents telcos from having more CO's around to support users. Also, due to the design of DSL, the CO's where the DSLAMs are located can not be furhter than x number of feet from the modem (line length). Cable has a hybrid fiber coax system where a local neighborhood cable loop can be connected through fiber to the main CO. This design can extend cable networks where ADSL could simply never work affordably. The bandwith that cable offers is more than enough for today's customers and the next set of DOCSIS specs and hardware is going to extend the limitations even further. The only competitor of cable as far as speed goes is FIOS, but that will require a whole new infrastructure to implement. This will be slow and cable is already established.

 

[Univac]

Originally posted by: hclarkjr
i just got hooked into a 5MB cable modem speed and was wondering what optimaztion i could do and if cable modems are designed to handle this kind of bandwidth.

Make sure you use Ethernet, I have seen USB interfaces restrict the throughput once in a while.

And I remember the tweak test and Dr.Tcp at dslreports.com used to work pretty well. Not sure if it still does, but it is worth a try.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: hclarkjr
i just got hooked into a 5MB cable modem speed and was wondering what optimaztion i could do and if cable modems are designed to handle this kind of bandwidth.

Easley, even with their hands tied behind their back.

There is usually no setting in the Modem, but you can optimize the computers for Cable connection.

Link to: Optimizing & Measuring the "Speed" of Internet Connection.

:sun:

Sigh. i like the optimization article. Too bad my bandwidth is like Liquid Gold. Only get 169MB every 14 hours. (So why do downloads stop at 140MB?) When I exceed I'm stopped for 8 hours. Ticks me off