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Burstable Service
What does "burstable" mean when referring to Broadband Service?
Burstable is a term used to describe the maximum speed your connection can reach. The speed at which a file is downloaded or a web site comes up can be influenced by several things:
1. The speed of your connection to your Internet provider's gateway. On our network, this speed is usually always constant but can, at times fluctuate depending on network load.
2. The speed of the path between your Internet provider and the destination provider. At times, there is some "bottlenecking" that occurs depending on the path your data transfer takes and how much other traffic happens to be passing through this same path.
3. The speed at which the destination can return data you request. If the Website you are trying to access is experiencing heavy traffic or is connected via a slow connection, you will be limited to how fast that site can get its response back to you.
All of these things contribute to "burst" that you may experience when using your Broadband Connection. Usually slow connections (such as dial-up) don't experience noticeable "burst" since the "bottleneck" is almost always entirely at the user's end due to the slow data transfer rates between modems.
So, what does this mean to me?
Well, it means that you could occasionally experience data transfers somewhat slower than our advertised speeds. We simply cannot guarantee that data rates will be constant since there are factors beyond our control, which can have significant influence on it. However, Pecnet will always make sure that the things over which it has control, such as local network overload, etc. will be avoid
ed by frequent equipment upgrades, more bandwidth to our provider's backbone as it becomes necessary, etc.
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