Is this claim true, or not?

[zscoundrel]

It's bullshit!  The answer was for the whole metro area.  They did not 
really answer the question accurately.  Each area is a specific node 
with a certain number of subscribers on that node.  When traffic 
increases to a certain point on that node, your available throughput 
will start to decrease.

This is how it was described to me by one of their technicians when I 
subscribed to RR and the printed information I received at the time as 
well as the info on the web site confirmed this.  This is an immutable 
fact and I have seen it happen.

I am sure that TW has some sort of process in place to monitor the nodes 
and they do have the ability to reconfigure nodes to manage the traffic, 
but this is not as automatic or as responsive as their reply would leave 
you to believe. You will at times see transfer rates drop, usually 
during peak usage during the evening.

So it isn't the number of users city wide that can cause your data rates 
to drop, just those on your node. This is most likely others in your 
neighborhood. I believe that this part of their concern over people that 
put up web servers on their cable modem connection.  Since they have a 
formula for how many average connections should be on each node, a few 
web servers would severely impact the available bandwidth for the other 
people on that node.  (Note, just because I used the B-word does not 
mean we need to get in another flame war about bandwidth.)

Seth Dimbert wrote:
>>From Time Warner (Road Runner)'s website:
> 
> Question:
> Will my cable Internet connection slow down as more users take the service?
> 
> Answer:
> No. Our competitors would like you to think so. Because of the scalable
> features of Time Warner Cable's hybrid fiber coax (HFC) design, we have
> nearly-infinite growth capacity. Today, our high-speed Internet services use
> just 6 megahertz of our 750 megahertz coax plant. In addition, we are only
> using 1600 fibers of the 4800 fiber optic lines we have run throughout
> Kansas City - the rest is "dark," awaiting future needs. Click here for more
> information.
> 
> 
> So? What's the deal? Is it true, or not? I'm currently using DSL and getting
> 162 kbp download and 105 kbp upload. TWC tells me that they will give me
> speeds higher than this. Once and for all, is it true?
> 
> -SD
> 
> 
> 
>