On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Glenn Jarvis wrote to All:   
      
    GJ> Anyone else here using Rogers Internet Service? How is your    
    GJ> service and is it the speed your paying for? I'm looking at a    
    GJ> possible move to Teksavvy  in the new year.   
      
   we're on a windstream 3M/768k DSL out here 15 miles from anywhere using barbed   
   wire for our lines :lol:   
      
   is roberts a cable or dsl service?   
      
   cable services are just like your network at work or possibly even at home...   
   they use what they call a concentrator which is basically a huge switch   
   connecting all the locations being served into one box for that traffic to   
   then move on to the 'net... the problem is that when the traffic in the   
   concentrator gets to be so much, all the traffic feeding each location is   
   slowed down... there is also a distance factor just like with DSL... the   
   further away from the concentrator you are, the lower your speeds will be...   
      
   look at it like this... there may be a concentrator allotted for an apartment   
   complex of 100 units... if there are only 50 residents using the connection,   
   everything is pretty much ok but when all the units are filled (say 95%), then   
   things may be noticibly slower at different times of the day... like, in the   
   afternoons when the kids all get out of school and get home to jump on the   
   'net... and the evenings when folks have had dinner and are playing online   
   first person shooter (FPS) games like quake... then there's also the video   
   feeds so that folks can watch their favorite shows and these days so many are   
   also doing VoIP (Voice over IP)... there's a huge amount of data being moved   
   compared to back in the day when things were just getting started...   
      
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