Do cable modems use shared bandwidth?
Yes, although only those in your immediate area share the bandwidth for your cable modem. Using a cable modem is similar to using a network at the office. As an example, you and your neighbors are basically on a local area network. And despite claims by some DSL providers, DSL services are shared also. Bandwidth is ALWAYS shared at some point. The Internet as a medium was designed on a shared basis. With a dial-up modem or DSL service, you are also sharing the ISP’s bandwidth to the Internet. In the case of a cable modem, the sharing happens closer to home. Therefore, you are sharing a larger pipe but with fewer people. And, because of the vast capacity of our system, you will never have to worry about traffic jams on our network. Trailblazer is engineered with fewer subscribers per access node in order to preserve the high speed of the connection.
