HERE is proof that the bandwidth available to you has an impact on your productivity.
At about 40 KB/sec — the average broadband speed in Mauritius — it takes approximately 23.5 hours to download the latest beta of Visual Studio Orcas.
At about 400 KB/sec, it takes only two hours for the same download to complete. This means I can start taking advantage of the new features of the improved IDE without having to wait for almost a whole day.
Eddy.
Wai, pas facile.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1266/1276782992_786993ef89.jpg
Bah… You can’t use Visual Studio on Linux anyway :-)
WOW 412KB/sec !! when will Mauritius get such a connection? I don’t think tomorrow! :) The 2756 KB/Sec of Stéphane Lee is still unimaginable here!
Aret tourne couteau dans nou ventre :-)
LOL…Pe tourne ,tourne, re tourne, nanier pa pa ariver mem!!!! Mo croire in ler pou tourne en sense invers!!
i think 400kb is unavailable. May be for My.T users?
Clive–
400 KB/sec (kilo-bytes per second) is equivalent to 3,200 Kb/s (kilo-bits per second), which equates to about 4 Mb/s.
I think the fastest connection available to home-users in Mauritius is 2 Mb/s in the local loop.
Eddy.
It’s more like 400KB/s x 8 = 3200 kbps = 3.2Mbps
I was equating the bandwidth to the threshold defined by ISPs, so 3.2 Mb/sec is what I get most of the time. But, I’ve also reached up to just above 500 KB/sec.
I think that in Montreal or Toronto, don’t remember, the bandwidth is around 800kb/s which makes it possible for online interventions.
Actually, you can have up to 20 Mb/sec in the UK, but that speed is rarely achievable due to infrastructure limitations. Anyway, 4 Mb/sec is more than enough, IMHO.
Eddy.
DON’T MISS The boadband myth in The Economist.
At micro-level, the relationship between productivity and economy of time from faster Internet connections is more obvious than at macro-level. Documents downloaded in little time and a clear VoIP conversation depend on good connection speed and result in more job done in less time, but does a whole country become more productive with more bandwidth? This is the question that the author tries to answer.
Eddy.