A mail that I received

[Daaru]

I compared the time and costs involved in downloading 100GB of data over Telkom's fastest ADSL offering (1Mbps) with the time and costs involved in flying to Hong Kong, visiting an Internet café, downloading 100GB of data at their fastest speed (1Gbps), and flying back.

Yep. that's quite a challenge! And here are the details:

Telkom
Line speed = 1Mbps
Download Size = 100GB
Estimated Download Time = 9.5 days

ISP (34 x 3GB accounts @ R269) = R 9,146.00
Line Rental (ADSL) = R 680.00
Line Rental (Residential Voice) = R 92.28
TOTAL = R 9,918.28


Hong Kong
Line speed = 1Gbps
Download Size = 100GB
Estimated Download Time = 13 minutes

Flight (SAA) = R 7,942.00
Internet Café (average cost @ HKD20) = R 17.43
TOTAL = R 7,959.43


Difference: Hong Kong is cheaper by R 1,958.85

So to sum up. it's cheaper and quicker to fly to Hong Kong if you want to download 100GB of data! I haven't got the time to work out where the two converge, but it just shows how badly we're being ripped off!A

 

[zerofocus]

Dude, where have you been this week?

 

[Daaru]

writing exams. :0(

 

[CaTcH21]

I totally agree with you, but what do you download to get to 100gb ?

 

[pimal3]

About 20 DVD's

 

[noswal]

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[nic777]

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PLUS that calculation was started by one of our forumites!

 

[chris54]

Saw the article in a Durban newspaper last week