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Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:52:22 -0700
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>wrote:
I read the article and the follow up posts and I wonder if we are all using the same definition for "speed" here. The article seems to imply you don't get 6 Mbps on your DSL line in summer because the copper is hotter and it's harder to push electrons down the link. That is clearly BS, the clock is ticking six million times per second, period.
So you're saying that if I put in an 8Mbps ADSL1 connection, then I'm going to get a guaranteed 8Mbps point-to-point back to the exchange, regardless of the quality of my phone line, or the distance from the exchange? That laser is blinking at 10 billion times per second whether the queue
behind the port is full or not. (And don't tell me the laser is quiescent when the queue is empty, you know what I mean.)
Laser? Perhaps this is a different type of ADSL than most people here are used to? (I'm not saying that the article is right, but...) Scott
Current thread:
- Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Hank Nussbacher (Oct 06)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Justin Shore (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Marco Hogewoning (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Pierfrancesco Caci (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Bret Clark (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Tim Franklin (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Scott Howard (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? joel jaeggli (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Steve Meuse (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 07)
- RE: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Jonathan Brashear (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Bryan Campbell (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Adrian Chadd (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Matthew Black (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Joe Greco (Oct 07)
- Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season? Jerry Pasker (Oct 07)