[GRLUG] core 5 iso image?

[Joshua Burns]

Good question. In fact I just spent the last hour trying to back up what I 
said with a web site or two but can't find anything. The only place I can 
find that information is in a book of mine from ITT Technical Institute, 
"Network Standards and Protocols," which states Cable only supports around 
60 concurrent connections or so, while DSL is generally a couple hundred. 
We'll keep in mijnd however that these books have been published by NIIT and 
therefore have absolutely no firm standing on factual information.

I do however stand by my statement that even though my friend can run a 
bandwidth test and get around a 7.5 mb connection, I can still generally 
download files via peer to peer networks close to the same speed he can.

Josh


>From: "Tim Schmidt" <timschmidt at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: grlug at grlug.org
>To: grlug at grlug.org
>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] core 5 iso image?
>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:06:25 -0400
>
>On 4/30/06, Joshua Burns <joshuadburns at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Well something you also must consider is whether or not you're using 
>cable.
> > If you are, keep in mind you are only allowed so a low number of
> > simultaneous connections while with T1/3 or DSL, this number is much 
>larger.
> > Being that peer to peer networks require many, many connections, using 
>cable
> > will be a sure down fall.
> >
> > I have a friend who has 8 Megabit cable while I myself have 1.5 DSL. I 
>still
> > download things nearly as fast as he does, simply because if you were to
> > monitor the amount of concurrent connections, you'd see my connection 
>has a
> > lot more actively downloading, and less being choked, while his is the
> > opposite.
>
>What's the reasoning behind this?  As far as I understand, the number
>of concurrent connections you can handle has everything to do with the
>computer making the connections, and possibly the routers in between
>the connections (including your personal router if you have one, and
>the ISPs), but absolutely nothing to do with the medium carrying the
>packets.  So explain why cable would be any different than DSL of a
>similar throughput?
>
>--tim
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