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Fiber is not immune to this problem either. You 48 10gbps homes might share a single 20gbps bonded uplink on a switch.

• mcny 3y ago
  At the risk of stating the obvious, I want to add a quote that I found very informative > If you're given the choice between a low bandwidth private connection, or a small share of a larger bandwidth connection, take the small share. From http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html
  • heavenlyblue 3y ago
    You are not being serious right? That article is discussing the realities of 90s internet
• abwizz 3y ago
  oversubscription ratios for consumer isp's are typically in the hundreds. and mostly that is fine because wifi is also involved which will domniate any availability or service quality metrics.
• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Theoretically, yes. Practically, the fact that no coaxial cable internet prominently advertises upload bandwidth leads me to believe there is far less upload bandwidth available than fiber networks.
• zymhan 3y ago
  Almost every network uses Statistical Multiplexing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_time-division_multiplexing?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_time-division_mult...