Contention relation to speed of connection.

If I have a adsl connection speed limited by line quality to around
512k download and am contended with (say) 19 others all of whom can
achieve 8Mb download, does that mean my share of the overall worst
case scenario cake is 1/16 th of 1/20th of the total? Or is contention
based on a percentage of the total throughput so it would be less of
an issue for those of us already running slow?


Jim.

James Egan wrote:
> If I have a adsl connection speed limited by line quality to around
> 512k download and am contended with (say) 19 others all of whom can
> achieve 8Mb download, does that mean my share of the overall worst
> case scenario cake is 1/16 th of 1/20th of the total? Or is contention
> based on a percentage of the total throughput so it would be less of
> an issue for those of us already running slow?

The latter.
Essentially it's the pipes between the ISP and the BT ADSL network which
will most likely get congested and therefore slow down.

An 8Mbit user and a 512K user would get the same speed, assuming the
contention is so bad that it brings it down below 512K. More likely a
512K user would not see the contention at all whereas an 8Mbit would.

On Sun, 13 May 2007 19:10:59 +0100, Loz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The latter.
>Essentially it's the pipes between the ISP and the BT ADSL network which
>will most likely get congested and therefore slow down.
>
>An 8Mbit user and a 512K user would get the same speed, assuming the
>contention is so bad that it brings it down below 512K. More likely a
>512K user would not see the contention at all whereas an 8Mbit would.

Thanks. I was hoping that was the case.


Jim.