> This is based on the somewhat false assumption that all people are using
> their full bandwidth all of the time. Given that the average ISP has at
> least 10 users per modem and at least 10 times the number of modems that
> their external bandwidth can handle I think 20 people sharing a cable
> segment (which can handle 33Mb) is a pretty fair amount. If it got up to
> about 100 I'd start to get a little worried.
Not to rain on your parade or anthing, but for what it is worth, Optus has
exactly this sort of a problem at the moment, with too many of there users
trying to use all of the bandwidth at once and run it as fast as they can
24/7.
Cable is a rather different beast to a dial up modem, and the usage etc is
more open to abuse (as optus has discovered), so i think your comaprision
doesn't really work that well.
Jason
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