Sri-Lanka
Internet-Download Speed
I must report to you my elation of fast download speed was very short lived. It lasted little over two hours.
Most likely server script blocking customer service was out of order for a while.
It is currently ZERO for my download.
It took half an hour to download 580 kB file ( 1 MiB when installed) of Gparted.
It is a joke to talk about Data Super High Way .
I will keep what is below for posterity.
I decided to Install Debian due to many reasons.
It took nearly 4 hours to finish, for 1.8 GiB of resources DVD with live updates from
a repository in USA.
Si-Lankan servers are very poor and Singapore is much worse (there is no
reliable Linux community base there).
Then, our Telecom has a habit of slowing the speed to 5 KB/sec, once one
has downloaded 20 GiB, (an arbitrary limit) within a month.
I pay a huge bill sometimes more than for electricity.
I have cut down my downloads due to slow speed and particularly to
cut down on my electricity bill.
Having said that I was downloading Linux images for upgrading and on
the 29th the speed was very slow, slow, I could not even
download the tiny torrent link file of SkoleLinux, Debian Derivative
(dedicated for school work).
I thought this was due to me exceeding the 20 GiB.
I have to wait for the next month to get my usual download speed.
I had to stop downloading Emmabuntus, a French derivative specially
dedicated to schools in Africa.
Just little while ago, I activated the torrent to see it is running at
over 100 KB/sec.
I had a thought for a while.
A miracle?
Couldn't be?
But my gut feeling is that the ruling party is using its final thrust
with the Internet propaganda and we have got a little bonus till January 8th.
I hope Telecoms take a giant leap (in other countries including
Singapore download speed is in Giga bites and Terra bites), come next
year and speed up our Super Slow Internet Highway.
I do not think it does cost as much as, the down to earth, building Speedy
Motor Highway.
If they use tiny fraction of the money that were wasted for motor
ways, it can make a big change in the IT industry.
