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So you think Your connect is slow
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:49 am
by woodchip
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:16 am
by Foil
It took two hours for the ISP to deliver ~164Mb (4% of 4Gb) of data?
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:29 am
by Duper
...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.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:33 pm
by Ferno
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?
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:52 pm
by DarkHorse
With buy-online games, 4GB isn't that much.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:50 pm
by woodchip
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:50 pm
by AlphaDoG
\"Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.\"
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:58 pm
by Topher
What a dumb test. Having an unlimited pipe is useless if the latency is 2 hours.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:08 pm
by Ferno
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
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:37 am
by Isaac
This is why all my posts are transmitted to lothar's house via duck.
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:38 pm
by Top Wop
Download Steam games via pigeon, I like that idea. Faster than the rate im currently downloading at right now.
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:16 am
by EngDrewman
New technology is not always better than the old.
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:53 am
by Sirius
Well... strictly speaking, 4 GB USB drives aren't really old technology.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:28 pm
by NUMBERZero
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?
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:03 pm
by TechPro
Al Gore.
(Note the definitive period.)
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:14 pm
by Capm
No, ManBearPig is responsible.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:05 am
by Isaac
TechPro wrote:Al Gore.[/i]
ha!
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:56 am
by DarkHorse
Durban's in South Africa. Even Al Gore can't claim credit for that one.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 am
by woodchip
TechPro wrote:Al Gore.
(Note the definitive period.)
It's spelled "Algore"
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:42 pm
by Warlock
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
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:35 am
by FireFox
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
