[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Simon Bridge]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:02 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 21:49:33 Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > Ah yes, of course. But if he is being sold 2Mbps that still won't be
> > guaranteed, will it?
> Oh, definitely, it's the "maximum that you will ever have a hope of seeing, 
> but don't actually expect to reach it" speed :) Although, if he's getting 
> 250kB/s, then it probably is being reached.

naive questions can be good for the ensuing discussion. That was my plan
all along of course :D

I saw 250kBs^-1 (being pedantic - though kB/s is OK, kBps is not because
that's "kilobyte-picoseconds"! I suppose someone *could* charge for data
storage in those kinds of units, though picoseconds sounds pretty
draconian) very early one morning - ran an update and it flew by! I
thought "wow"!

OTOH: Last month I hit my data cap quarter way through an iso
download... there's a word to describe this, lets see, oh yes: engfeh!