I think for ADSL dedicated on the local loop, caps can only be due to the international carrier charges. (Do you happen to know how much international carriers charge these ISPs?)

Quoting Kyle Spencer <[email protected]>:

+1

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Kizito Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

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  -----Original Message-----
*From*: [email protected]
*Reply-to*: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]>
*To*: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]<uganda%20linux%20user%20group%20%[email protected]%3e>>, Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected]<benjamin%20tayehanpour%20%[email protected]%3e>
>
*Subject*: Re: [LUG] GNU/Linux ISOs
*Date*: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:21:55 -0500

:)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! File list
> follows below.
>
> b6e67f3a5b69e5e224eb67df277dfad7 ./Arch/archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso
>
> 68d0109017f486f24a4c04217dd547f2  ./Archbang/archbang-2011.11-i686.iso
> 74ae96da17c3710bf88f1efa85adce0c  ./Archbang/archbang-2011.11-x86_64.iso
>
> 1e573918749a7aad9ed2898793c257eb
> ./Clonezilla/clonezilla-live-1.2.12-24-amd64.iso
> 5375306316a8952e5861745c3ded3472
> ./Clonezilla/clonezilla-live-1.2.12-24-i486.iso
> 6db7912497be27f3c663276715f8d985
> ./Clonezilla/clonezilla-live-1.2.12-24-i686-pae.iso
>
> fad3c3cba2b019c805c88c33742cedef
> ./Crunchbang/crunchbang-10-20120207-amd64.bpo.iso
> bbfba02e9ce54c5370e454228637fa99
> ./Crunchbang/crunchbang-10-20120207-i386.bpo.iso
> 016fc66784fe351a1a1248f30b8d5c65
> ./Crunchbang/crunchbang-10-20120207-amd64.iso
> f14fb84ecac5f859e8a3434ff99aeba6
> ./Crunchbang/crunchbang-10-20120207-i386.iso
>
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> 43f75ce14311a164fd74092296bada0d
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>
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>
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>
> 5cb7e0d4506c249b78bbe0cd4695b865  ./DSL/dsl-4.4.10.iso
>
> cfe9c2fc7b53e7058a18cb30f5efffc4  ./Fedora/Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>



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