Re: Can someone explain contention?

Cullen Skink wrote:

Surely not. Even with 4 people using it at the same time you would notice a big drop off in performance and that doesn't seem to happen. If one person was connected 24/7 doing downloads how could anyone else use it? I think I'm missing something. :-)


Being on-line and using bandwidth are not the same thing. Except for streaming, gaming and file download you are rarely continuously using bandwith so it works on the principle that those 4 people will not actually being continuously overlapping in their demand for bandwidth. You might hit short slow downs during brief contentions and if everyone wanted to use bandwidth at once they would notice a slowdown.


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Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon
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