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 I'm no guru on the subject either, but I did find a nice clip that could lead you to your answer.


http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DOCSIS.html

My main concern is that the reallocation of bandwidth is disproportionate to the consumption of said bandwidth by the upload.

That's an excellent question.

It really comes down to mathematics. Too much brain crunching for me to compile, but mudmanc4's quote is very true. This also depends on how many people are on the node, how healthy the mobo cards are in the node per upstream snr levels, time of day (peak/non peak).

This used to be a large issue when cable internet evolved. There was only so much bandwidth to go around, only so many nodes...

Now that the speeds are more than sufficient to handle the media rich websites, the average (non gamer I might add) won't notice or call their local tech support. The only issues now that are being resolved are overcrowded nodes. Once you hit about 600 people on a given node, you can expect some issues.

Cable operators are in the process of thier yearly projects. Upgrading frequencies and also laying more fiber alongside coax to support the load. They'll be called E.O.N. or P.O.N.    E- Meaning Extenable. P- Meaning Passive O.N. Meaning Optical Network. They'll be 'splicing' and 'sweeping' nodes. Some places will double to alleviate crowding. San Diego already has most of thier stuff in place. Any place you can figure they have E.O.D. "On Demand" for cable television, they're ready.

That's a whole nother story.  Hope that strikes interest.

Some interesting results maybe.

Normal duplex operation found.
OS data: Name = Windows Vista, Architecture = x86, Version = 6.0

1. Going to have to read up on duplex.
2. I am running an x64 arc.


So I have been digging and digging for the same issue on many many sites.  And I think you are on to something when you talk about the handling of large amounts of packet generation and deconstruction by the CPU.  The dual core AMD is notorious for having this exact issue in servers but my problem is that their is no "cpu driver" for vista x64.  And the only driver for the dual core amd processor is a Microsoft maintained one which is not good because MS is extremely !fast. So any other ideas or comments would be welcomed.

And Keetan, did not mean to ignore your post but I have check my true bandwidth and nod capacity and I am in a newer area and share my node with maybe 50 homes max.  And i have this same disproportionate relationship in peak and off peak. 

Question.  I guess if i really wanted an answer to my question I could dual boot this box with longhorn server/2008 and see what happens then i could officially call it the vista driver problem?