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Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog () dirtside com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:13:44 -0400
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Scott Weeks<surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:
Note this part, though. ""Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted," Telkom's Troy Hector told South Africa's Sapa news agency in an e-mail." It would be nice to know what those recommendations were...
"Buy a business-grade service like a T1" instead of ADSL perhaps?
From tfa (emphasis mine): "in the same time [2 hours] the **ADSL** had
sent 4% of the [4GB memory stick] data." 4% of 4 gigs in 2 hours puts their ADSL _upload_speed_ in the ballpark of: 4,000,000,000 bytes * 0.04 * 8 bits per byte / 2 hours / 60 minutes per hour / 60 seconds per minute ~= 180,000 bits per second 180kbps is more or less middle-of-the-road for ADSL. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
Current thread:
- SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Allen Simpson (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Jeff Kell (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Michael Thomas (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Scott Weeks (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Herrin (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Nick Hilliard (Sep 11)
- RE: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Holmes,David A (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Herrin (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Colin Alston (Sep 22)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Scott Weeks (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Richard Bennett (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Christopher Hart (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Richard Bennett (Sep 11)