🚀 go-pugleaf

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...


Phil.

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