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popfresk
New Contributor
5 years ago

Potential rebalancing of upload and download bandwidth

From what I have heard, a neighborhood node has 4x load-balanced 6.4Mhz 64-QAM upstream channels. Effective throughput per channel is only 26.92Mb/sec. That means the cable modems on a node are all s...
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kurtech
New Contributor II
5 years ago

Will upgrading to 1gbps give me more consistent latency?

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    Alef_Meem
    New Contributor III
    5 years ago

    Only if it is 1Gbps download AND upload, meaning a dedicated fiber connection to the house. If you mean the Gigablast package that is 1Gbps download / 35 Mbps upload, that is still hybrid fiber/coax, meaning you are still subject to node saturation.