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

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> writes:

> 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.

Hehe..
Winning the Putnam, for me, would mean a numbskull award.