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Can everyone in the neighborhood (assuming they all use same provider) max out their connections at the same time? AKA Does the upstream provider have that much bandwidth?


Definitely not, I mean, even web hosts and colocation centers will oversell their bandwidth.

That said, I ran a internet radio station + free image host node on my residential connection and was pushing a few TB/mo up and never got any complaints. And BitTorrent is obviously quite popular in Sweden so I'm sure there's a bunch of seeding going on.


No, the provider wouldn't have the bandwidth, which is why the fine print always says that they only guarantee up to x/y mbit.




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