Re: Telkom marketing at it again?
Aubrey Kilian <[email protected]>
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>> The problem, of course, is that the Hoi Polloi out there, have no idea >> that it will actually take 7 minutes to download a 3MB file at >> 386kbps, not "just over 30 seconds". > > 384Kbps = 48KB/s theoretical max download speed, ever, on that line. :) > > 3072KB == 3MB => 64 seconds to transfer, in an ideal world, assuming > you got the full 384Kbps, which you won't. > > So how on _earth_ do they arrive at "a little over 30 second(s)"? I get to the same answer, so I was wondering how Roland was getting to his "7 minutes". "30 seconds" could count as "a little", depending on how you look at it. But ja, I'm guessing it's a matter of a non-technical marketing person dreaming up the marketing material. -Aubrey _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz