wow.. just over a weekend I have to catch up more than 10 pages. Here's my take (note: i'm not sure if it's the actual case) on how Maxis control the speed per tower with the assumption that you have the right modem and signal strength to support up to 42Mbps:
- Each tower has a pipe of 42Mbps or more bandwidth
- They will have a device that do QoS or dynamic bandwidth control on that tower depending on the number of users connected at the time
- Let's say they apply a very basic QoS rule which is divide the pipe to the number of connected users equally. If 10 users are connected, each user will get around 4.2Mbps. If 2 users are connected, each might get around 21Mbps. (The figures that I used are just sample to help us understand, it might not reflect the actual numbers Maxis allocate to each tower or each user)
- We can see that during daytime, most people get slower speed because of the congestion while during graveyard shift, you can get maximum speed because most people is already sleeping
Well, it's just how I'd look at it from a technical perspective. I'm sure experts in this cellular field can tell us more about it.
This post has been edited by maxcheam: Nov 20 2012, 03:30 PM