That's a marketing distinction. There's no practical difference in
degradation between the two unless many people in the same "neighborhood"
are maxing out their bandwidth.
Even so, it's silly to earmark traffic that way. As previously mentioned
on this thread, streaming media or other "acceptable" traffic is often
much harder on the network than sporadic mail and web pages.
The part I find humorous is that Time Warner wanted to charge me double
for an "Enterprise" package, which would be on the same network and would
have half the available bandwidth.
Levi
> I think you'll find that cable companies are going to
> be harder on this than DSL for the simple reason that
> Cable is locally shared..ie nieghborhood shared and
> the increase in traffic would degrade the product they
> are selling in the area. DSL on the other hand is
> dedicated and controllable at the DSLAM so they aren't
> worried about it.
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