How does one define broadband? Is it all defined around throuput? Latency? Between which endpoints? Using ADSL currently one can expect a local latency of around 30ms to anywhere within SA, and depending on whether you’ve got a SAIX (Fibre) or IS (both Fibre and Satellite) you can expect anything between 300ms and 800ms to international destinations (obviously depending on the exact geographical location and the type/distance of the peerings being used).
Archive for March, 2009
Broadband … really?
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009nVidia bluez
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Those who know me will instantly tell you that I’m a nVidia fan in the whole nVidia vs ATI debacle. So big was my surprise this morning when I couldn’t get a nVidia Quadro NVS 440 working by simply going “apt-get install nvidia-glx” on that ubuntu box …
