How do cable internet conenctions slow down?

Syringer

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Is there a certain range of simultaneous users for a cable internet connection to slow down..a certain amount of bandwidth used by each person..or how does it work? When they advertise a connection at being 3mbps, is that 3mbps for a whole neighborhood, since one user would rarely see those speeds, or what?
 

jacob0401

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3mbps is only 375 kilobytes per second so that is attainable by cable. Not that hard to get before ATTBI bought Excite I saw speeds at around 450-500 KB/s.
 

pulse8

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For my cable, they advertised as 1.5mbps down and 35KB up and that's exactly what I get.

I rarely EVER see a slow down.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: jacob0401
3mbps is only 375 kilobytes per second so that is attainable by cable. Not that hard to get before ATTBI bought Excite I saw speeds at around 450-500 KB/s.

i know thats ture but on my 2.5mbps cable line i can get speeds of 400+k/s without a Dl accelerator. hows that work?

with one i can get almost 700k/s
 

isekii

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Originally posted by: pulse8
For my cable, they advertised as 1.5mbps down and 35KB up and that's exactly what I get.

I rarely EVER see a slow down.

mine is rated 2.5mb/384k

and i get the advertized speed maybe a lil higher at times.

no slowdowns
 

atomstryker

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Mine is rated 3mbps, but I rarely see 1. Adelphia seems slow in my area.... Sometimes, it evens slows to dial-up speeds. They've been out here on numerous occasions, but are never able to do anything, so I stopped trying. Neighbors seem to have the same problem. Heck, it even drops AIM connections a lot....