der.hans wrote:
>
> Cox avoided downtown Tempe in the rollout of their cable modem rollout.
> Presumably because they thought the students would use more bandwidth than
> average. They also avoided apartment buildings. Maybe that was due to
> billing and getting agreements with apartment complex owners.
> The initial Cox rollout was into physically seperate wealthy
> neighborhoods. It seemed they were seeking people who could afford it, but
> wouldn't be using it all too much.
I think this was due to the fact that neighbors share bandwidth (with a
cable connection, not DSL). Dense areas degrade performance.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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