[117407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Sep 11 16:14:40 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090911115402.A670B0C9@resin13.mta.everyone.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:13:44 -0400
From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
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