UTL which is the only ADSL provider in UG has a local speedtest mirror at www.speedtest.net.
It would be interesting to see some results… Regards, -- Markus On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > :)Where exactly is the bottleneck? Where did you experience this from, i mean > the location? (Those are typical questions from service providers) > > But, I suppose even if the ADSL local loop is copper, it should achieve up to > 8Mbps downlink, then you will be switched onto a T1, or T2, or T3, or at T4 > ye probably switched to the Uganda Border Exit gateway, then to the Kenya > Exit gateway, unto the Africa exit gateway, unto Europe entrance gateway, > then unto some university mirrors in Europe to get the distros. > > As far as i have been reading, the exit gateway interconnection should now be > fiber; so why couldn't you download your distros fast enough? > > For the broadband mobile, probably i can understand, coz the base stations > may not be interconnected by fibre, the error rate is great, and any overhead > enabling encryption on the access modems renders the system slow...... > > Quoting Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected]>: > >> Having downloaded two ISOs over a Ugandan ADSL connection, I am now >> thoroughly humbled. It would take less time to walk/drive over to a >> friend's house and copy his or her downloaded ISO! >> >> Which, in fact, brings me to my point. I have a few distribution ISOs on my >> laptop in case anyone would save some time and bandwidth. I usually sit in >> WOUGNETs office during office hours (GPS: 0.34382,32.59247 Google Maps: >> http://goo.gl/LWcML), so feel free to come and leech some data! 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881d188cb1ca5fb18e3d9132275dceda ./Ubuntu/ubuntu-11.10-server-i386.iso >> >> ab1e8b5707d888ac08a75e25b67059c6 ./Ubuntu/xubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso >> 5eaf65ba12f74b6c5b912cce2dae1762 ./Ubuntu/xubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso >> >> d050e2d6ca2351af40a9ff5ff908cbb2 >> ./wikipedia/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 >> > > > > Kawalya Davis > Programmes Manager > Donald IT Solutions Ltd > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list 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). 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