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Originally Posted by HarryT
The problem is that with a shared resource like ADSL it only takes a very small proportion of selfish users to degrade performance for everyone. For example, when my ISP here in the UK introduced a usage cap they reported that 0.1% of their users were using over 50% of their network bandwidth. It's only fair that high volume downloaders should pay more - it is a limited resource.
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ADSL is provisioned and guaranteed bandwidth not shared. Cable is actually the shared and can vary over the course of a day. If you are trying to assert that ADSL is a shared resource simply because of the commonality of the DSLAM or other network control devices, well sure so is any other form of networking.
Now if there was a change in the ADSL topology in the past decade I must have missed it.