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I live in a residential area so my internet slows down when everyone gets home. I thought I wouldn't have these issues since I have dsl instead of cable. I heard that you're sharing your bandwidth with your neighbors with cable but not dsl. However, I believe two things happened when I noticed the slow down.
1) They introduced U-Verse in my area (I believe U-verse runs on optics while dsl runs on copper. Not much of a network guy but I'm assuming it's possible at some point the data comes together and causes a bottleneck)
2) I believe Comcast cable internet instated caps around the time of the slowdown- driving people to ATT since at the time it isn't caped.
I think even though I'm not sharing my bandwidth like cable users there must be a bottleneck somewhere else, perhaps at the station. Not too much of a network guy, but it doesn't seem that far fetch that all the dsl connections have to meet up at certain points causing a choke.
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