So you think Your connect is slow

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:49 am

I kinda like this story, a real muscle over elctrons:

A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:16 am

It took two hours for the ISP to deliver ~164Mb (4% of 4Gb) of data?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:29 am

...but how often does the average user d/l 4 GIGS? 2 gigs is the largest file I've ever grabbed.

1-4 megs is more the average size.

cute though.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:33 pm

yeah foil. it did. I read that story about two days ago. I can't remember the source, but still.

duper: the point of the excercise was not to test how much the average user can download, but the maximum throughput the largest ISP in the country can deliver. and the numbers do not look good at all.

woody, would it kill you to include a link?

DarkHorse · Post by **DarkHorse** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:52 pm

With buy-online games, 4GB isn't that much.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:50 pm

Here ya go Fernman:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:50 pm

\"Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.\"

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:58 pm

What a dumb test. Having an unlimited pipe is useless if the latency is 2 hours.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:08 pm

AlphaDoG wrote:"Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds."

"well don't bill it as fast internet if you can't deliver!"

lol

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:37 am

This is why all my posts are transmitted to lothar's house via duck.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:38 pm

Download Steam games via pigeon, I like that idea. Faster than the rate im currently downloading at right now.

EngDrewman · Post by **EngDrewman** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:16 am

New technology is not always better than the old.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:53 am

Well... strictly speaking, 4 GB USB drives aren't really old technology.

NUMBERZero · Post by **NUMBERZero** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:28 pm

Did anyone do the math? That's 50 hours to send all of the data! 2 days and 2 hours!

If Telkom says that they are not responsible for their \"turtlenet,\" then who is?

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:03 pm

Al Gore.

(Note the definitive period.)

Capm · Post by **Capm** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:14 pm

No, ManBearPig is responsible.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:05 am

TechPro wrote:Al Gore.[/i]

ha!

DarkHorse · Post by **DarkHorse** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:56 am

Durban's in South Africa. Even Al Gore can't claim credit for that one.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 am

TechPro wrote:Al Gore.

(Note the definitive period.)

It's spelled "Algore"

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:42 pm

Duper wrote:...but how often does the average user d/l 4 GIGS? 2 gigs is the largest file I've ever grabbed.

1-4 megs is more the average size.

cute though.

*raises hand*
did 100gb a week ago. took it 22 hrs

FireFox · Post by **FireFox** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:35 am

Finally people can now understand my frustration at times!

Oh and if you think that's bad try this on for size, your options are between 2 - 12gb cap limits then there are the unlimited caps but I'm not paying half my salary for that

and if you want unshaped, rates almost double

Like they are so font of saying here:
PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN!
(it's even got a copyrighted logo)

At least its better than the dial up option but still sucks!

Oh and I find this link more amusing thou

http://www.watkykjy.co.za/ Just scroll down a bit and you'll find the little article about heldom

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