[leglug-users] DSL

[BashLogic]

greetz

here is a simple calculation i did about 4 years ago when i got a GPRS
card to my laptop.
back then it was marketed under trial having full GPRS bandwidth at a
fixed priceof45e/month with no limitations. later they changed the
limitation to 10mb +1e/1mb
so in short.

nowadays all those webpages with the flash addons and stuff would have
an average wheight of 200kb, so every five pages you click equals to
1mb (roughly)
on average if you only read the news on several sites and some basic
surfing, put together, you would be performing an average of 20 hit
requests for basic stuff, so that would equate to about 4mb. now if
you read your emails and you get an average of 5 mails without
attachements a day, you can add about 200-500kb to that so so far, you
are using about
4.5mbit x 8 = 36MB/day


/day for basic surfing and emailing. now if you perform skypecalls,
skype consumes an average of 10kb a sec so per minute that is
600kb/min if you have three calls/day with a duration of 10min that
would equate to 6Mb/call x 3 = 18mb

so basic surfing + basic mail reading + several skype calls / day = 54mb/day

add some other gebrish stuff, irc, nntp, etc etc, add another 10mb
so per day that is about 64mb/day

64mb x 22 (active days/month) = 1408Mb/month = 1.4Gb month for basic stuff..
now if i would do the maths, if if four years ago I  got 10mb for free
i would have still had to pay the operator for 1380mb = 1380e/month..
*shreeeekk*   that is why i stopped using it after the trial period,
now we have UMTS and the operators are offering unlimited and
unblocked connections for a fixed price of 60e/month. took them four
years to realize the lost they made in investments and the markets
they lost because of the wrong way they charged.

having more bandwidth does not ensure that you have faster
connections, do remember that the bandwidth they are selling you is
between two points and the other point is the cental hub where the
DSLAM for the adsl are. so you get the promised bandwidth between your
host and the next hop, and if lucky, if you are connecting to a
neighboring host you will get the bandwidth as well otherwise your hop
latency will slow down as they approach your ISP border gateway and
would reach the world on the shared limited bandwidth that has all the
bells and whistles and ribbons that give you a darn big pain in the
****

hope i correctly recalled calculations and that was of use.

regards
BL










On 4/26/07, Abdallah <abdallah.deeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> My question for you ISP and network people out there:
> How much does a 2G quota give me in real usage (day to day) criteria.
> Meaning:
> - How many hours on Skype?
> - How many hours on MSN/gTalk/IRC?
> - How much browsing? Google earth? etc...
>
> Does anyone have these numbers?
> Hisham, how does your 5G fare if you don't download videos and ISOs?
> Anyone using a 2G quota who could tell me if it's worth it, or should
> I go for the upgrade?
>
> > Interesting - good to see the Lebanese government is also enforcing
> > transfer quotas on the accounts. My current 128K account has a 5GB
> > monthly quota on it. Whats the point behind giving us more speed if we
> > cant use it?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > hsiham.
> >
> > --
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> > http://hisham.cc/
> > +9613609386
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