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Re: Networking in Africa...
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:13:26 +0200
At 05:36 PM 02-12-02 -0500, alex () yuriev com wrote:
> >> fyi, all countries in africa are ip connected. dunno how big your > >> hands are, but there are over 50 countries in africa. > > > >Pardon me for not counting "allocated" addresses as IP connectivity. > > You're pardoned, but just barely. Try some traceroutes, and you'll > find that every country in Africa does indeed have some kind of IP > connectivity. Try finding some IP connectivity while in Nigeria. You would be hard-pressed, even if you are willing to pay enormous $$.
http://www.gilat.com/post/GilatinAfrica.pdfWe currently provide 14Mb/sec of upstream commodity Internet access for Gilat. Most of it is to Nigeria with Congo, Cameroon, Aritrea, Madagascar, Ghana and Mozambique nicely represented.
-Hank
> There seem to be a lot of ISPs who get little slices of IP from > satellite carriers like emperion.net in Denmark. Much of the 419 spam > I get from Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and other west African > countries originates in cybercafes with satellite links. Correction... *very* *few* satellite links. Alex
Current thread:
- Re: Networking in Africa..., (continued)
- Re: Networking in Africa... John R Levine (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Omachonu Ogali (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... John R. Levine (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... fingers (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... fingers (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Max's Lists (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Hank Nussbacher (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Martin Hannigan (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Matt Levine (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Charlap (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Schwartz (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Charlap (Dec 03)