# Just how slow is south africas internet?? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320 "2009-09-10T09:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Viper966](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/viper966/32/7268_2.png) [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/1 "2009-09-10T09:30:59Z")
**Pigeon transmits data faster than leading South African internet provider** ![http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/09/usb-pigeons.jpg](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. ---
**Author:** ![cfrat1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cfrat1/32/5315_2.png) [@cfrat1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cfrat1)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/2 "2009-09-10T10:00:36Z")
lol ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/3 "2009-09-10T10:03:10Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/4 "2009-09-10T11:20:37Z")
lol. ---
**Author:** ![Wahoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wahoo/32/8265_2.png) [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/5 "2009-09-10T11:24:10Z")
Time Warner…point made. ---
**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/6 "2009-09-10T11:32:15Z")
FiOS ftw. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/7 "2009-09-10T11:33:06Z")
love it… good find. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/8 "2009-09-10T12:28:05Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > 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? 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… ---
**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/9 "2009-09-10T14:58:23Z")
yup ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/10 "2009-09-10T15:08:45Z")
> [@Viper966"](#): > > The pigeon arrived with the 4GB memory stick in just over an hour with another hour required to load the data onto the computer. Should have used the USB 2.0 port. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/11 "2009-09-11T06:15:54Z")
> [@TgDn32](#): > > Unless I messed up somewhere, thats .22kb/s, roughly. 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. ---
**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/12 "2009-09-11T10:43:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-how-slow-is-south-africas-internet/73320/13 "2009-09-11T11:42:52Z")
> [@TgDn32](#): > > 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. Hah good catch