[kictanet] How do we compare on speeds?
McTim
dogwallah at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 16:02:57 EAT 2009
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, P Gitau Githongo <pgitau at githongo.com> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
The bird will always beat a DSL line, which is asynchronous (faster
down than "up") over a relatively short distance. At 1.54 Megabits
per second, a 4 GB file will take a minimum of 6 hours.
If you buy a fatter, synchronous pipe, you can beat the bird.
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Cheers,
McTim
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