Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Nathan Anderson <nathana () fsr com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:58 PM, Owen DeLong <mailto:owen () delong com> wrote:
>
> > In fact, many of the hotels that have solved this intelligently have
> > simply 
> > placed DSLAMs in the phone room and run DSL to each room with
> > a relatively inexpensive (especially when you buy 500 of them at a time)
> > DSL modem in each room.
>
> ...or more likely (at least in my own probably limited experience), a CMTS and cable modems instead of a DSLAM and 
> DSL modems.  Probably because so many of these hotels have an existing digital PBX system that drives all the phones 
> in the rooms which isn't going to take very kindly to sharing its copper with a DSLAM, and because they already have 
> coax run throughout the place to drive the televisions.  Easier to share the existing coax with a CMTS than it is to 
> stretch a bunch of new telephone wire dedicated just to DSL; I mean, at that point, you might as well just pull some 
> Ethernet.

I haven't encountered many CMTS-based systems in hotels where I've stayed (and I stay in quite a few every year).

In most cases, the digital phone system uses 1 pair of the 2-pair wiring and the DSL modem uses the other pair.

Owen