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Nortel: Video Will Drive Telcos Towards 20Mbps Broadband
Talkback Nice idea but what about the contention ratio on ADSL? The contention ratio would then become the problem s the users would eat each others bandwidth If video over broadband was to really take off you would find people watching the films at similar...
[May 14, 2004, 11:37]
Fixed Wireless Network Rolls Out In Dublin
News Irish Broadband's products offer a lower contention ratio than standard DSL, which should make them attractive to small businesses, and consumers who want to guarantee a fast connection even at peak times.
[June 2, 2003, 16:18]
Superfast ADSL Planned For Metro Areas
News Our DSLAM lets you change the contention ratio, and business customers will pay to get away from the 20:1 ratio they are on now. It is not uncommon for consumers to have a 50:1 contention ratio, but prices for lower ratios are likely to be too high...
[February 13, 2002, 10:45]
Tiscali Unveils Basic And Advanced Broadband Products
Talkback Tiscali are probably signing 200,000 users, but it is at a cost - and to the users, as the contention ratio goes from 1:50 to more like 1:500! This is the actual speed you get from Tiscali 512 "Broadband", on a 2.2.feed line.
[April 1, 2004, 18:50]
Broadband Fulfilling Its Promise
Talkback In fact as more users sign-up for broadband in the UK & the contention ratio effect becomes more noticeable, plus the inability of many websites to cope, broadband can of course slow to below dial-up speeds.
[July 29, 2004, 13:35]
Broadband Speed Test
Blog Comment Its all about the contention ratio. You should try only using your connection at 3am. This should reduce the load from the hundreds of others, doing who know what, on the same connection.
[February 19, 2008, 12:32]
Adaptive Channel Selection Through Collaborative Sensing
White Papers This paper proposes a Busy Time Ratio (BTR) metric that captures channel contention and user traffic load under a variety of network dynamics. Proper channel selection is essential to exploit the benefits of multi-channel systems by distributing...
[May 25, 2007, 0:00]
Thus Cheers Broadband Performance
News One key move made by Thus in the last year was to launch broadband services that offered a lower contention ratio than standard products. Such low-contention services are usually popular with gamers, or users who regularly video-conference or...
[May 6, 2003, 15:18]
Thousands Of BT Anytime Users Face The Axe
News According to Ingram, this service offered a ratio of three home users per modem, compared to the rest of Anytime which had a contention ratio of something less than 10 users to one modem. BT is poised to axe over 1,000 subscribers to its Anytime...
[October 15, 2001, 18:14]
Tiscali Broadband Offers Service Quality For Voice
News This starts at £60 for a service which supports one voice call at a time, by combining a dedicated 50kbps channel with 256kbps of best-efforts data at a 10:1 contention ratio. Other options include better contention ratios and more data channels...
[March 8, 2005, 17:25]
Superfast DSL Hits The (metropolitan) Streets
News Many early adopters have seen the effect of the contention ratio as more people in their neighbourhood have signed up to ADSL, thereby increasing the ratio on a particular DSLAM and degrading the service.
[April 12, 2002, 8:42]
BT: Anytime Can't Mean 'all Of The Time'
News It's even offering these people a month's subscription if they agree to leave -- a clear indication that BT isn't best pleased about having to offer a 3 to 1 "contention ratio" for the foreseeable future.
[October 16, 2001, 14:17]
Tiscali Unveils Basic And Advanced Broadband Products
Talkback November 2003-February 2004 were acceptable with 300-400 speed, but since early March the speed started dropping alarmingly, and now I must be on a much worse contention ratio than 1:50, probably 1:500 - 1:1000, and the speed in the evening drops...
[March 30, 2004, 20:00]
Tiscali Unveils Basic And Advanced Broadband Products
Talkback November 2003-February 2004 were acceptable with 300-400 speed, but since early March the speed started dropping alarmingly, and now I must be on a much worse contention ratio than 1:50, probably 1:500 - 1:1000, and the speed in the evening drops...
[March 30, 2004, 19:49]
Business Users Benefit From Broadband Cuts
News Business broadband packages offer a better contention ratio -- the number of customers sharing a connection at the local exchange -- than a home user package. Business broadband customers are to make significant savings on their high-speed Internet...
[February 26, 2002, 16:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Interestingly, people are now offering cheap ADSL connections that don't support MP3 transfers -- it does make the contention ratio less of a problem, but would you want to sign up for it? Thursday 23/05/2002
[May 27, 2002, 17:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog a 512Kbps service with a 50:1 contention ratio for which you could expect to pay between seventeen and twenty quid. Tuesday 24/8/04 Stirring news from Sweden, where ISP Bredbandsbolaget has decided to launch a service for around fifty quid a month...
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
UK Online Rolls Out 8Mbps Broadband Service
News These packages -- which include service level agreements, multiple IP addresses and a more favourable contention ratio than UK Online's Broadband 8000 -- can cost £200 per month. Internet users in many urban areas around the UK may soon be able to...
[November 17, 2004, 15:30]
Business Needs More Broadband Know-how
News Tele2's Small Business Upgrade package starts at £94.99 +VAT per month, for features such as upload and download speeds of 64 kilobits per second (kbps) and burstable speeds up to 512kbps, a fixed IP address and a 15:1 contention ratio.
[February 12, 2002, 13:24]
Telewest To Fight BT With Faster Broadband
News Critics of cable-based services like Telewest's say that it has a higher contention ratio than ADSL -- which would mean that performance declines faster when new users are added in a particular geographical area.
[March 1, 2002, 10:29]
