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2mb with a good content ratio?

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  • 19-10-2006 4:54pm
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    shanethemofo
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    Well my 2mb eircom connection is utter sh1te atm in the evenings because of the 48:1 contention ratio. Any 2mb deal with a low ratio?

    Shane


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    Freddie59
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    shanethemofo wrote:
    Well my 2mb eircom connection is utter sh1te atm in the evenings because of the 48:1 contention ratio. Any 2mb deal with a low ratio?

    Shane

    If you can get NTL it's 17:1

    http://www.broadband.gov.ie/List+all++Services/Home.htm

    Magnet's lower, but I don't know if they're widely available.


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    Foxwood
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    Freddie59 wrote:
    Magnet's lower, but I don't know if they're widely available.
    Smart and Magnet are probably as widely available as NTL.


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    hobie
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    Can you identify the actual Contention ratio at any specific time .....

    I run a couple of speed tests now and then (tonight 872/106 on a 1MB service from Eircom) but I can't see anything that will indicate contention ration .... :confused:


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    Blaster99
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    Smart or Magnet don't do anything differently than eircom. It's possible eircom has backhaul capacity problems in some exchanges but it's rare.


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    Foxwood
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    hobie wrote:
    Can you identify the actual Contention ratio at any specific time .....

    I run a couple of speed tests now and then (tonight 872/106 on a 1MB service from Eircom) but I can't see anything that will indicate contention ration .... :confused:
    No, you can't measure contention at the user end. If there was an FTP server in your exchange, and you coud download from it at 1Mbps, whereas a download from an FTP server in eircoms data centre only came in at 800kbps, that woud indicate a certain amount of contention on the link between your exchange and eircoms core network. If an FTP from heanet.ie ony came in at 600k, that woud indicate further contention on eircoms link to heanet, etc. But unless you have resources to measure the throughput rates to intermediate steps like this, it's not really possible to put a figure on contention issues, at least from the end-user POV.


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