Hi Mike, It doesnt really matter where in Uganda servers are located. As long as they are located inside Uganda. I have seen IX traffic do nearly 128Kbps over ISDN, which is nearly the maximum for ISDN.
Most ISP's have a rather fast connection to the IX (besides the poor africaonline guys, common sebbos, get your act together!) UTL & MTN have fiber, i have heard, Datanet has a 10Mbps link, Infocom Wimax (that should be several MB's then). So, placing a server at any of these companies should show a *huge* increase in speed for everyone inside the country. It would be even better if ISP's would sell bandwith at max speed, and then Internet bandwith with the not-so-broadband speeds we have. So, you sell Wimax, you sell the full say 10Mbps, then on top of that, you sell your 64kpbs shared satelite bandwith. That way, i think, people will learn to appreciate internet technology more as they learn a page-flip does not have to take more than 60 seconds, and it will also boost local internet business. Believe it or not, but untill we get the cable, we can still compete with Google and the likes, because we can have a real real speed advantage. Once the cable is here, we are soooo what? ehh, cant say. just my 2 cents. rgds, reinier On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:01:34 Mike Barnard wrote: > On 10/24/07, Reinier Battenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Ubuntu is just totally ready for a Ugandan > > repository. Once that is running, and Canonical (the makers of ubuntu) > > confirm it works, they will point ug.archive.ubuntu.com to that local > > ugandan > > repository. > > > I feel you Reinier.... its a cry that we dont have our IXP in the state the > some of us dream of. We could be running all these at the IXP (since it has > its own public IP address block). There is a whole /24 sitting there, doing > a lot of nothing. If we could get a few of these things at the IXP, it may > just save us a lot of that international bandwidth... > > > > -- > Mike > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
