Re: Telkom marketing at it again?

On 17 March 2011 14:40, Barry Gill <[email protected]> wrote
quoting what I wrote originally:
>   > > that it will actually take 7 minutes to download a 3MB file at
>   > > 386kbps, not "just over 30 seconds".

My (really) bad!  Yes, my gripe started with their bits being
explained as bytes.

And then I did a magical calculation that no-one, including myself
will be able to repeat...  which possibly only proves that I should
have gone to bed the previous night and not in the morning only.

Then to top it all, I typed 386 instead of 384...  (could have been an
autosuggested 386 processor reference, since a 384Kbps line is almost
as bad :-) )

I must confess, I haven't used a 384 ADSL line in a very long time, if
ever. Telkom should make this entry level service free and charge for
the faster services, that how slow 384Kbps is in my mind.

So apologies to all for not checking my post better before sending it out!

regards

Roland


>   >
>   > 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)"?
>   It is so completely out, even if you took them at face value and
>   understood that if you were buying a 384 kbps line (by their own
>   admission this is a 384 kiloBYTES per second line), it would take 8
>   seconds to transfer 3 MB.
>   384 KBps = 3072 Kbps
>
>   So go figure, it's no wonder no-one knows what the hell broadband is :)
>
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