No need to reinvent the wheel, connection contention ratios have been the same for about 20 years, just the actual numbers increased. You could look at ISP uplink contention for example, or international 'NBN' examples. Basically, the contention is higher than DSL, but the base rate is also far higher.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Sean K. Finn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.finn@ozservers.com.au" target="_blank">sean.finn@ozservers.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I’d be interested in hearing peoples opinion On-List!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Samantha Scafe<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 17, 2012 11:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] NBN Suggested Contention Ratios<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Evening Fellow Noggers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><br>Before we stumble blindfolded into the muddy waters of the NBN I am looking for some advice on suggested contention ratio’s for NBN connections.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Please apply off list <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Sam<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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