Paper E-Mail is kind of hazardous as it tends to cause the computer to grow limbs and attack everyone in a fifty-mile radius. The Sneakernet is needed to stop it, but once it's in the net you have to find somewhere to put it.Cpt_Oblivious said:
Carrier Pigeon Beats Internet in South Africa
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Okay, he's got massive bandwidth... I'll grant Winston that. But OMG teh laaaag...
/imagining gaming over Winston-net, and wishing he wasn't.
-- Steve
/imagining gaming over Winston-net, and wishing he wasn't.
-- Steve
The interneat is a series of tubes... in Africa, those tubes are much smaller, which means the internetz travels through them at the same speed, but less of the internetz is recieved over time.
4GB in 1 hour Eight minutes + another hour = 128 minutes?
4GB = 4096MB = 32'768 Mega bits
128 minutes = 7680 seconds
32'768Mb in 7680 sec = 4.2Mbits/sec
According to THIS [http://www.itif.org/files/BroadbandRankings.pdf], USA has an average download speed of only 4.8mbps and UK at a measly 2.6mbps
I find this less a criticism of South Africa and more a criticism of the internet of internet in general with the exception of the top 11 countries in the world ranked by avg internet speed.
The top of the pile consist of South Korea and Japan with the rest mostly taken up by countries of Scandinavia and North-Western mainland Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, etc).
To spite the UK's proximity to France (17.6mbps = Fast enough to stream 1080p movies at bitrate same as a blu-ray disk) it has almost 1/7th the average download speed.
Also, in terms of cost per 1 mbps of speed we (UK) are charged almost 10 times as much as the French.
Fuck this shit. I can take this from any other country BUT NOT THE FRENCH!
4GB = 4096MB = 32'768 Mega bits
128 minutes = 7680 seconds
32'768Mb in 7680 sec = 4.2Mbits/sec
According to THIS [http://www.itif.org/files/BroadbandRankings.pdf], USA has an average download speed of only 4.8mbps and UK at a measly 2.6mbps
I find this less a criticism of South Africa and more a criticism of the internet of internet in general with the exception of the top 11 countries in the world ranked by avg internet speed.
The top of the pile consist of South Korea and Japan with the rest mostly taken up by countries of Scandinavia and North-Western mainland Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, etc).
To spite the UK's proximity to France (17.6mbps = Fast enough to stream 1080p movies at bitrate same as a blu-ray disk) it has almost 1/7th the average download speed.
Also, in terms of cost per 1 mbps of speed we (UK) are charged almost 10 times as much as the French.
Fuck this shit. I can take this from any other country BUT NOT THE FRENCH!
I think he meant the pigeon.VincentX3 said:
Also, I think that the service provider is being deceiving with their "We gave them suggestions" claim. Not knowing what those suggestions are, I imagine them to be irrelevant to the problem.
