Re: Telkom marketing at it again?

Aubrey Kilian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.ioz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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

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