How bandwidth affects productivity

Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:18 GMT

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.

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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.

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Eddy.

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  1. Wai, pas facile.

    Comment by Stéphane Lee — Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:24 GMT #

  2. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1266/1276782992_786993ef89.jpg

    Comment by Stéphane Lee — Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:25 GMT #

  3. Bah… You can’t use Visual Studio on Linux anyway :-)

    Comment by Eddy — Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:33 GMT #

  4. 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!

    Comment by Chervine — Thursday, 30 August 2007 16:00 GMT #

  5. Aret tourne couteau dans nou ventre :-)

    Comment by Avinash Meetoo — Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:07 GMT #

  6. LOL…Pe tourne ,tourne, re tourne, nanier pa pa ariver mem!!!! Mo croire in ler pou tourne en sense invers!!

    Comment by Chervine — Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:02 GMT #

  7. i think 400kb is unavailable. May be for My.T users?

    Comment by clive — Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:58 GMT #

  8. 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.

    Comment by Eddy — Friday, 31 August 2007 15:46 GMT #

  9. It’s more like 400KB/s x 8 = 3200 kbps = 3.2Mbps

    Comment by S — Friday, 31 August 2007 20:53 GMT #

  10. 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.

    Comment by Eddy — Friday, 31 August 2007 22:32 GMT #

  11. I think that in Montreal or Toronto, don’t remember, the bandwidth is around 800kb/s which makes it possible for online interventions.

    Comment by clive — Friday, 31 August 2007 23:08 GMT #

  12. 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.

    Comment by Eddy — Saturday, 1 September 2007 08:39 GMT #

  13. 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.

    Comment by Eddy — Friday, 23 May 2008 15:31 GMT #

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