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[AdLo]

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/shares/ict_sector/504329.htm

A moneyweb article that compares broadband offerings in SA.

The article states the monthly price for ADSL is about double that of the comparable wireless broadband offerings.
I wonder what Telkom will think of this article?

 

[BMU]

(Kilo-, mega- and gigabytes refer to the amount of information one can transfer, while kilo-, mega- and gigabits refer to the speed at which information can be transferred.)

Oh dear. So much for any working knowledge of the 8 times multiplication table.

*Edit - ohhh I see, they're actually talking about bits/bytes vs. bits/bytes per second. Just forgetting to mention the, you know, per second part.

 

[Trent242]

Thats actually a curious thing - to me at least.
I don't have an inkling on how the conversion works.
Lets say I have a 384 ADSL line....

In the perfect world, what would be the max speed I would be able to download at, and how long would it take me to download a 350MB file ?

 

[BMU]

Hey Trent

Hope this helps:

1 byte = 8 bits. (That's all your really need to know, the rest is just basic maths.)

so 384 kbits/s (or kb/s) = 48 kbytes/s (or kB/s)

Time for a 350Mb file:
350MB = 350,000kB (actually 358400: 1024kB in a Mb, but that's nitpicking )
Time = 350,000kB / 48kB/s
=7292 seconds
= 2.0 hours

 

[andres101]

Modem prices vary too, with Sentech’s costing about R2 600, and the MyWireless modems ranging from R1 699 to R2 800.

I thought MyWireless was Sentech's package?

 

[bwana]

Broadband activist company MyADSL

Company?