| What is a contention ratio? |
| Contention ratio refers to the maximum number of users you could be sharing your bandwidth with. There are 2 contention ratios in use by Allcomm, 50:1 and 20:1. If you have a 50:1 contention ratio then in theory another 49 users could be competing for the 512kb you have. In practice this very rarely happens and even on the slowest ADSL product users typically see a 10x improvement over a 56k modem. |
