Re: Telkom marketing at it again?
Rory <[email protected]>
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On 17 March 2011 14:38, William Francis Stucke <[email protected]> wrote: > No one seems to have addressed the first error: - > > * What does kbps mean? > > Kilobytes per second. > No, it doesn't. It means kilobits per second. Bits, not bytes. Well-spotted. Re: 0.87 - my experience with 4Mbps and 10Mbps ADSL also indicate a value around that range. > 25,165,824 bits / 326,000 bps = 75 seconds. > That's "a little over one minute", if you're feeling generous. So, with perfect line-speed: 64 seconds. With effective maximum line speed: 75 seconds. The amount of time to download a 3MB MP3 over a 384kbps connection can _never_ be "a little over 30 seconds", "For instance, at 384kbps, a 3MB file, which is more or less the size of your average music file, would probably take a little over 30 second to download." I take it that's the exact text of the ad? I suppose it could be true, if 'probably' meant 'never', and 'a little over' meant 'less than'. Probably. R. _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz