Just how slow is south africas internet??

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Pigeon transmits data faster than leading South African internet provider

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/09/usb-pigeons.jpg

Here’s a sure-fire way to get noticed: take an overly trite expression and apply it literally to your complaint. Case in point: Unlimited IT, so exasperated by South Africa’s leading supplier of slow internet connectivity that it pitted a Telkom ADSL line against a real-live homing pigeon in a 60-mile data transmission race. The pigeon arrived with the 4GB memory stick in just over an hour with another hour required to load the data onto the computer. As for Telkom? Well, after 2 hours it had barely reached 4%. Point made.

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lol

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I can run to my next door neighbor’s house with my 1TB USB HD way faster than i can send it to them on my internet connection. Point made?

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lol.

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Time Warner…point made.

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FiOS ftw. That is all.

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love it… good find.

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Ya not sure what exactly they are expressing here by this test.

Someone do the math…4% of 4GB over 2 hours is how fast an upload a second? My DSL connection at my old apartment would peak at about 30KBps uploading…

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yup

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Should have used the USB 2.0 port.

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I think its 22.222 kb/s

4,000,000,000 Bytes* 4% = 160,000,000 Bytes

160,000,000 MB / 7200 Seconds = 22.2222 KBytes/s

Pretty reasonable for ADSL since upload speed is typically slow. Its just slower than a typical 256k up DSL line that Frontier in Rochester sells.

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yeah its 22.22 kb/s - I was in mb/s for some reason.

Your labels are fucked though lol
4 billion gigabytes is a lot.

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Hah good catch