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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:15:07 -0400
From:      Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc:        "andy t" <g_et1@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: data transfer 
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010608081130.023e0898@mail.enterit.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106080523.f585NHi27188@fedde.littleton.co.us>
References:  <F171GVCxPcnietfhTGB00010392@hotmail.com>

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Chris,
Pretty snazzy.

Andy,
Just remember, you must have an absolutely stable 24/7 dialup connection to 
achieve this =P  Well, I mean if you want to do 10G in exactly 30 days and 
all ;)

- Jim


At 11:23 PM 6/7/2001 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:06:40 -0000  "andy t" wrote:
>  +------------------
>  | Hi,
>  |
>  | I'm looking for any software & documenration to talk about data transfer
>  | limitation.
>  |
>  | example:
>  |
>  | 10 GB data transfer monthly.
>  |
>  | does anybody know ?
>  +------------------
>
>Um...  Maybe I'm missing something here. But won't simple multiplication
>do this for you?
>
>     10Gbyte = 10*(1024^3) = 10737418240 bytes
>
>     1 month = 30 days/month * 24 hrs/day * 60 min/hr * 60 sec/min
>             = 2592000 seconds
>
>     10737418240 / 2592000 = 4142.522 byte/sec
>
>So if you want to transfer 10Gbyte in a month your channel better support
>at least 4Kbytes/sec.  Since most data comm equipment is rated in
>bits/second you need a channel that supports 32Kbits/second. So your
>average 56K dialup might just work.
>
>--
>     Chris Fedde
>
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- Jim
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