Cable providers will usually add a node to an area to ease such congestion. Of course, not all web content can be cached, and so your request may travel beyond the head-end and across the Internet. Once you're beyond the head-end, you're on the same Internet as everyone else and subject to the same delays. But in almost all cases, cable modem users will see throughput to the cable head-end and to the wider Internet at speeds that exceed those of an ISDN connection. While definitive statements about actual speed are impossible, the perceptible difference between regular and cable modems is dramatic.
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