Originally Posted by
sbm12
ALL internet service is shared at some point, as you always have to get from your provider to the provider of the content as some point on the network. The only question is where that bottleneck will occur. I agree that it is more likely to be an issue with cable modems, but if their backhaul bandwidth is sufficient you may never notice that.
Cablevision has horrendous bottlenecks at peak periods, particularly up here in hell, err, Westchester. I had speeds drop to below 1mbps around 7pm pretty regularly, which renders my twice weekly WebEx conferences useless, as I can't stream on at those glacial speeds. I've never had my FIOS drop below 10mbps at any time.
Cablevision as had quite a few outages that could last as long as two days, which were exacerbated by surly CS agents. If they hadn't been so cheap for 1 year, I would have never even considered them.