On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:05:17AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:39:19PM +0200, Nathan Orenstein wrote:
>> I am confused by what my Internet bandwidth really is and how to measure it. >> I noticed that I had some problems with slow Internet. I did not expect >> this since >> I am supposedly getting 2.5Gbps from Netvision. > Not on this planet. Maybe 2.5mbs (2.5 million BITS per second). Maybe you mean "not in this country" or "not from Netvision", or you are grossly underestimating the great digital divide. A single one-week *conference* (or "hack camp") in western Europe can get total aggregated Internet uplink speed of significantly more than 10 Gbps. That is a network that is set up, used for *one* week and decommissioned. All of it: The routers, the fiber links, ... See e.g. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/652-slides_network_review.pdf . I agree to discount my employer - a university - as an exceptional case and not count its uplink as possible for mere mortals. :) (Whether the original poster was confused or not is another discussion. I was merely discussing the possibility "on this planet".) -- Lionel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
