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[WyteWatt]

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[ProviaFan]

You're grammar isn't that useful when trying to figure out your message, but if I'm understanding you correctly, then the answer is that High speed internet connections (DSL, Cable, etc.) would not be useful because the servers' upload bandwidth would be saturated to the point that it would barely have enough to provide dialup speed access to the clients.

 

[h0vic]

If all servers ran on a T1, then the internet will be completely blogged down the entire time. T1 is only 1.5Mbps.

 

[ProviaFan]

And this problem will become a reality if everybody starts getting 100mbit/sec connections (some guy from Intel said he wants to see that happen). Realize that a 100mbit/sec connection is faster than most ISPs, and for that matter, many webhosts also, have, and thus they'd probably need gigabit connections or even faster. Of course, this all will have to come down in price, or else it won't be happening.

 

[Garion]

Just run the math.. A T1 is 1544 Kb/s, or about 154 KB/s. If you have a 15K page, you can serve 10 people per second. If a user averages about 20 seconds reading each page, you're up to 200 concurrent users per T1. Not very much! This doesn't quite work when people are on slower connections like modems, but for broadband users, a single PC can push a T1 pretty hard. In fact, my download cap on my cable modem is 1500Kb/s -

- G

 

[MoMeanMugs]

I hope Garion is adding 2 overhead bits, otherwise his math skills are about as bad as imtim83's English skills.

 

[Garion]

You are correct - I always do a simple divide by 10 from rated Kb/s speed to get actual KB/s throughput - That's a good way to factor in protocol overhead in the packet.

- G