Re: first test of setup .. what is wrong here

[Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>]

On 1 July 2011 04:33, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> On 06/30/11 11:26, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> writes:
>>> Cable modems typically upload at between 512 kbps and 2 Mbps; for 800 MB
>>> of data, that works out to between 50 minutes and 4 hours.  Not surprising
>>> that your archive hasn't completed in 12 minutes...
>>
>> Perhaps they are bogus but I get upload speed at 2.9 mbps.  I'm not
>> that hot at math but I'm not following your figures.
>>
>>   800 mb  / 2.9 mb = 275.86206896551727 seconds
>
> MB = mega*bytes*
>
> Mbps = mega*bits* per second.
>
> 800 MB / 2.9 Mbps = 36.7816092 minutes.
>
>> I'm, no doubt doing this wrong... can you explain how you arrived at
>> 50 minuted to 4 hrs.  Maybe I'm mixing apples and oranges (or megabits
>> and megabytes?)

Putnam?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

It finally clicked after a few drinks.

Cheers,

Tony