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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it is shared. You have your own piece of wire from your house to the telephone exchange, but it's a shared "pipe" from the telephone exchange to the ISP.
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You have got to be kidding me? You consider that shared? hahahaha...really? Well by that logic there is zero existence of unshared bandwidth.
The fact ALL networks have an inherent commonality at some point is a given but the definition of a shared resource that matters here revolves around the DSLAM to the home wire and that is not shared.
To call ADSL a shared service is downright misleading perhaps in an attempt to engender opinion to your position. It is in fact not a shared service. On a shared service the actual rate delivered is variable in real-time. Cable is the case of a shared service at the neighborhood level. ADSL is not shared at the neighborhood level which the only relevant level of sharing to the end user. Everything else is at a layer or more abstracted from the actual users access and service.