2011-01-14, 05:46 AM
Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:Little info on Cable...
Cable internet is a shared connection between yourself and others in your neighborhood, apartment complex, etc. As more people sign on and gain access to the same network, the connection rate is split up between you and others in your service area.
1 person on would get 100% of the speed
2 people would get 50/50
3 people would get 34/33/33
...and so forth until basically they either don't allow anymore people in the area, or the service rate drops to 56k/v92 speeds. At most they never add more than 4 to 5 households in an area.
Chances are your "neighbor" is the problem actually, and possibly other neighbors reducing your bandwidth.
DSL (ADSL) offered by phone companies doesn't have this problem. It's not as fast speedwise as Cable, but it has consistent and continuous speeds unless you yourself add people in your business/household to the network.
Often you'll find out that 6MB connections offered by Cable, aren't always going to be 6MBPS data rates unless you, yourself, is the only person on the network within your neighborhood/building.
So with that in mind we need to know when this guy gets his constant disconnections. He may very well try to game during peak times.

