Re: Improved the internet in our region

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 13:12:48 -0700

Hi Logan,
At 12:41 24-05-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> The global Internet has continued to grow, both in speed and
> penetration. According to the latest report from Akamai [AKAM10],
> the global broadband (> 2 Mbps) adoption has surpassed 50%,
> propelling the average connection speed to reach 1.7 Mbps, while the
> narrowband (< 256 Kbps) usage has dropped to 5%. In contrast, TCP's
> initial window has remained 4 KB for a decade [RFC2414],
> corresponding to a bandwidth utilization of less than 200 Kbps per
> connection, assuming an RTT of 200 ms.

The assumption of a RTT of 200 ms does not hold for Mauritius. I did
some quick tests:

  185.31.18.144 223 ms
  192.134.5.5 212 ms
  89.221.43.137 211 ms
  195.22.213.210 229 ms
  176.32.106.2 237 ms
  198.41.204.74 211 ms
  103.28.54.1 273 ms
  92.223.16.66 406 ms
  23.58.11.224 350 ms
  149.20.64.69 348 ms

As for the broadband (greater than 2 Mbps) adoption in Mauritius I
doubt that it has surpassed 50%.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sun May 24 2015 - 20:13:11 PST