🚀 go-pugleaf

phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
: pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford) writes:
: 
: Assuming the date of the inception of AARNET as May 90, and using the data
: provided by Peter below:
: 
: >56K	-> 128K		Nov 90
: >128K	-> 256K		May 91
: >256K	-> 512K		Feb 92
: 
: A little statistical work, shows that a good curve fit for the speed of the
: connection to the US is:
: 
: s = 10.62 * 2 ^ (0.1511 * t)
: 
: Where s is in kb/s and t is the number of months since the beginning of 1989.
: 
: This means that we have a doubling time of about 6.618 months, and indicates
: that we will probably need a 1Mb/s link to the US in the middle of July this
: year, and a 2Mb/s link in February 1993.
: 
: 
: Aren't statistics fun :-)
: 
: I now return you to your regularly scheduled discussions of why we can't
: access every library in Australia from the Net...

But there's one missing data point - when did the 56K line get
installed?

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