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Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Sat Oct 10 22:42:23 2009

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Fred Baker wrote:

> Are we talking about bit rate, which one might expect to be modified  
> by environmental characteristics and is in fact very tightly  
> controlled to prevent that, or traffic volume?

Not true with modem type technologies, where the available transmission
rate is a function of how many available frequency space slices are
deemed to be "good" at any one time.

This isn't really like SDH (from what I've read of SDH, anyway.)



Adrian






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