Not sure if this is the right discussion for this one but would love some help. I wrote an article in a local business journal on small business networking. In one paragraph I talked about how speed on one end doesn?t mean anything if the speed on the other end is slower. I gave the example of one of the local ISPs who is now offering 5 Megs of down speed, and made the point that the average guy will never see that speed since there are no sites I know of that upload at that speed.
Now the ISP wants a retraction because they tell me web sites routinely push data out at 10 to 44 Megs. I know that but that?s not my point. I told them, if there is a time when only two people are connected to a web server with a 10 Meg connection, then on that rare occasion those two users could actually see 5 Megs a piece. If that happens routinely, you need some more use for that server and it?s bandwidth.
If I had told web site builders that no one is uploading at 5 Megs I?d be dead wrong. But I was talking to users and my point was that the bandwidth gets split among all users attached at a given moment so that no one gets anywhere near the full speed.
Am I wrong? If I?m right, anyone now of a site that will back me up? I Googled for a while but only found one that really talked about this issue.
