Cable Internet Getting Cheap?

[DVDR_Dog]

Unless you live alone in the woods, you can't help but notice all the ads for cable Internet. It's virtually deceiving how they throw the terms "fiber" and "gig speed" in their adverts. #1 it ain't fiber, it's RG59 coax cable to the premise and #2 It's not a symmetrical "gig speed", usually the upstream is ~ 10-15% of the downstream provisioned speed. #3 You share whatever the fiber to NOC line speed is between all your neighbors with whom you share that fiber line connected to your community node. Typically the customers connected to that node when all their circuits are connected, are provisioned for way more than that node is capable of delivering. The cable company hopes you don't all try to utilize full speed same time or you are in for a huge surprise. Typically the sales contracts have some type of provision stating you can't use more than X amount of bandwidth or they may throttle your line to cover their behinds.