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dikbek

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From an American list to which Isubscribe:

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THE INCREDIBLE INTERNET
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Full steam ahead: I just upgraded my DSL service to 3-megabits! And,
I'm getting it for 5 bucks less a month. Goodbye to the slow days of
crawling at 1.5-megabits.

I look forward to seeing you on the Information Super-Duper Highway.

If you pass me, honk.
 
*Sigh* and *Double-sigh*... Hell, what a way to end the week: TGIF - maybe something really positive will happen over the weekend... (/me puts on brave face to face the future...)[xx(][xx(]
 
dikbek...

You seem like a bit of a sadist. How exactly is this supposed to cheer anyone up? Do people still get slapped with trouts ??

<font color="blue">/me slaps dikbek with a whale</font id="blue">

I believe cable goes up to 10Mb/s, and I read somewhere they are proposing 100Mb internet connectivity in one of the asian countries. Will post more if I find the link again.



<font color="green">Video didn't kill the radio star...</font id="green"> <font color="red">Telkom did</font id="red">
 
They have uncapped 1GBps fiber connections for home users in Japan...

Willie Viljoen
Web Developer

Adaptive Web Development
 
And I have a 10Gb connection to the room upstairs - it doesnt really help from there on though.

Honestly places like Japan, their international peering isnt really all that much better, they just have a hell of a lot more local users and local content.

Cable btw is != any random peice of cable. Cable is a service in the US using a similar coax network to the cable TV system. Thats what people like NTL provide in the UK too. It suffers the same problems as any BNC network and has alot more contention than ADSL.

The european countries btw mostly have 100Mb/s fibre.

What telkom need to do is provide cheaper local access so that we can actualy have local content to access instead of it costing 1/100th of the price to host sites outside SA.

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett
 
Well, believe it or not, I actually prefer our slow internet connections to the 1GBps Japanese ones, since Japan was allocated a very small slice of the world's available IP address space, almost everyone there uses real IPv6.

That's a good thing, because IPv6 is more efficient than IPv4 (currently in use around the rest of the world) and provides enough address space that each person in the world today could have several million IP addresses allocated just to them.

However, since the rest of us are still using IPv4, the Japanese can't directly connect to anything. Often, entire buildings, suburbs or even towns share one IPv4 address (their connectivity is bridged from IPv6)

This severaly restricts their capabilities as far as connecting to the rest of the world goes. In most cases, these users can do what they like in terms of connecting to other Japanese users, but only have very basic (proxy-based) IPv6-to-IPv4 access, usually only FTP and HTTP is available to the outside world.

No KaZaa fol you Danialson, Miyagi Sensae solly, no conventional IP ehxcess in Okinawa. [8D]

Willie Viljoen
Web Developer

Adaptive Web Development
 
I will provide free uncapped service to all ADSL users .. u connect to me via my ADSL connection and you have FREE unlimited use ... uncapped and unshaped of my entire dial up line ...

We are Telkom - Resistance is Futile - You will be Assimilated
 
podo
Crap
I set up a bridging gateway in Tokyo in late 1999, the office had a /24 ipv4 subnet assigned to them.
The office -&gt; internation b/width was via a 8mbit link with guaranteed 20:1 contention.
And this was LOW end, 'cos the parent co' is cheap.

Regs
 
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