BBC: How do Africans experience the Internet?

Shocking pricing in Africa and bandwidth terrible
512Kb shared Wireless (most of the time 128k) in Zambia with 2.5Gb cap R1500/m
Advantage: Static IP
Disadvantages: Everything else

http://www.speedtest.net/result/560137782.png
To Speedtest server in Norway via Taide Satellite

Each client has a Linksys WRT54GL (WAN side) connecting to Motorola Canopy Wireless device connecting to Africonnect ISP
 
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Experience the Internet? How can we experience it, is rather a slog as we can access only limited information which must be paced through 30 days as to avoid being capped for the rest of the month, all that at an HUGE expense relatively. You must protect the cap at all costs the ensure business and necessities first before any enjoyment of leftover cap.

Pondering.... Wonder if BBC even knows what capping is? Maybe we should ask first?
 
So typical of Africa, over congested bandwidth

Tracing route to igubu.saix.net [196.25.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 125 ms 22 ms 28 ms reserved-41-222-19-254.iconnect.zm [41.222.19.254]
3 26 ms 31 ms 35 ms lsk-core-ge0-1.iconnect.zm [196.12.12.221]
4 40 ms 118 ms 28 ms lsk-tde-dvb-eth0.iconnect.zm [196.12.12.226]
5 3008 ms 2724 ms 3143 ms 63-218-52-185.static.pccwglobal.net [63.218.52.185] Congested Satellite
6 * 2746 ms 2939 ms TenGE12-2.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.12.238]
7 3417 ms 3341 ms 3138 ms telkomsa.ge9-16.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.13.14]
8 * 3064 ms 3247 ms wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.30]
9 3524 ms 3332 ms 3629 ms igubu.saix.net [196.25.1.1]
 
Where is application form for answers to fill in??
 
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