arsenefc:

AUN has the potential to become the best in the country, I think!

arsenefc:

Yeah, I hope it happens, Again.



Remember Biafra. I am hoping and praying for another Biafra. I am sick of the lazy, dirty, stupiddddd Ibos. They need to be wiped off Naija's map.

arsenefc:


This life is funny. Most times, rightly so, whatever we wish unto others end up happening to us, our close ones and relatives.

VALIDATOR:

If all the students just stay online and watch high bandwidth consuming HD porrn 24/7,they still won't be able to consume as much as half of Lagos.
By the way the statement is ambiguous.What do they mean by "55% of internet traffic from Nigeria". What is Nigeria's daily bandwidth consumption.What is 55% of it?

Let's use this small math to show that what they are saying is impossible:

If each AUN student stay online all day (86,400 seconds) and uses high speed broadband 1.3mbps,the 2,000 students will consume
86,400 *1.3*2,000=224,640,000 mb

Now,let's assume the rest Nigeria has low speed internet connection,say 50kbps (0.05mbps) and just 1 million people  use it for just 4 hours(4* 3,600seconds),our consumption will be
0.05* 4*3600*1,000,000=720,000,000 mb
224,640,000 is obviously less than 55% 720,000,000 and of course i was being generous by assuming that all their 2,000 students are online 24/7 and only 1 million Nigerians are online only 4 hours per day and restricted to low speed internet.

Therefore, the said report of AUN using 55% of Nigeria's internet traffic is FALSE.

Lantean:

Regardless of the bandwidth they've got, I bet this is an attempt to make name for AUN.[/b]

Cos i don't see how ONE university can beat the degree of presence of the THOUSANDS of Internet cafes in Lagos alone, [/b]not to talk of an [b]ENTIRE country.

GET REAL DUDE

BizBooks:

I find this statement hard to believe. I manage a small website and in the past 2 weeks, here is my traffic statistics as compiled by Google:

1. Lagos - 1770
2. Abuja - 1298
3. Port Harcourt - 217
4. Warri - 43
5. Zaria - 40
6. Kano - 28
7. Kaduna - 25
8. Ibadan - 22
9. Jos - 16
10. Nsukka - 9

I understand that American University of Nigeria is in Yola. As you can see, Yola is not even on this list. May be we are missing something from the article.

mathskill:

Are you now suggesting there is no internet traffic from yola at all?

big_sean:

@Mathskill, ofcos you know that's not what he means, use your common logic bro , or else you run the risk of sounding like the "google people" that claim AUN pulls 55% of the internet traffic, which i'm sure u dont need any proof to know thats outright false, unless the "internet traffic" means something else which i would be glad if the google spokes person or anyone in this forum can clear for us

Akainzo:

You could look at my post above yours for a possibility of how it could be true. Do not be too hasty to throw everything away.

Akainzo:

Well, I would approach this in another manner. I have reservations about this statement, but my open mind tells me it is possible.

Let's take a moment to consider the below:

1. 98% of multinationals in Nigeria are actually connected through their home networks and are therefore not counted as Nigeria's traffic.
2. Almost all the cyber cafe's to work around the limitations posed on Nigeria, uses an external Proxy Server
3. The Mobile Internet providers also have some of their services running out of their home countries.
4.  As of now, to the best of my personal knowledge, ONLY IPNX, DOPC and SWIFT are registered as ISPs domiciled in Nigeria, thus any other traffic would not register as coming from Nigeria.


If you look at the scenarios posted above, it is very much possible that they would account for a large chunk of traffic if they are correctly identified as originating from Nigeria.

big_sean:

just seen your post and even though your given assumptions make alot of sense, u would agree with me, that your point off view is still a very hard sell

ispeaktrut:

I am amazed at the ignorance displayed on the internet every time and mainly by my dear Nigerians! Why are you guys so quick to write off this claim? Consider these facts
1. The university is the ONLY university in Nigeria that has wireless internet EVERYWHERE on campus.
2. Aside from school work, the students use the internet for various sorts of entertainment such as Facebook, Twitter and the rest.
3. Not only does every student and teacher have a laptop, they have phones and gadgets that allow them to surf whenever, wherever.
4. Exams in the school are sometimes conducted online.
5. Students check their grades and coursework progress using an online website called Banner, created and maintained by some of the students themselves!
6. Ever heard of "Turn It In"? It's a program the lecturers use to check students' essays to ensure they do not plagiarize (cheat).
7. Some classes require you to turn in your papers in both hard copy and soft copy (lecturer's email)
8. The internet in this school is 24/7.
9. Yola is a rather boring town and it is easy for students to spend all their recreational time ONLINE!!! I did it in my time.
10. The school's email facility is Google-based and Google has actually visited to discuss a partnership with the university!

Now, do you guys still think this claim is far-fetched? And I am a graduate of the university so I know what I'm talking about!

Have a blessed day.

I think this in addition to the post below justifies the claim.

Akainzo:

Well, I would approach this in another manner. I have reservations about this statement, but my open mind tells me it is possible.

Let's take a moment to consider the below:

1. 98% of multinationals in Nigeria are actually connected through their home networks and are therefore not counted as Nigeria's traffic.
2. Almost all the cyber cafe's to work around the limitations posed on Nigeria, uses an external Proxy Server
3. The Mobile Internet providers also have some of their services running out of their home countries.
4.  As of now, to the best of my personal knowledge, ONLY IPNX, DOPC and SWIFT are registered as ISPs domiciled in Nigeria, thus any other traffic would not register as coming from Nigeria.


If you look at the scenarios posted above, it is very much possible that they would account for a large chunk of traffic if they are correctly identified as originating from Nigeria.

chakaz:

Greatest lie of the millenium! Even if all their courses is only; Google 101, 201, 301 etc!

ispeaktrut:

I am amazed at the ignorance displayed on the internet every time and mainly by my dear Nigerians! Why are you guys so quick to write off this claim? Consider these facts
1. The university is the ONLY university in Nigeria that has wireless internet EVERYWHERE on campus.
2. Aside from school work, the students use the internet for various sorts of entertainment such as Facebook, Twitter and the rest.
3. Not only does every student and teacher have a laptop, they have phones and gadgets that allow them to surf whenever, wherever.
4. Exams in the school are sometimes conducted online.
5. Students check their grades and coursework progress using an online website called Banner, created and maintained by some of the students themselves!
6. Ever heard of "Turn It In"? It's a program the lecturers use to check students' essays to ensure they do not plagiarize (cheat).
7. Some classes require you to turn in your papers in both hard copy and soft copy (lecturer's email)
8. The internet in this school is 24/7.
9. Yola is a rather boring town and it is easy for students to spend all their recreational time ONLINE!!! I did it in my time.
10. The school's email facility is Google-based and Google has actually visited to discuss a partnership with the university!

Now, do you guys still think this claim is far-fetched? And I am a graduate of the university so I know what I'm talking about!

Have a blessed day.

big_sean:

I'm more inclined to this quote above.

Yea, yea, @ispeaktrut and @akainzo do have very very strong points, but those points show  good reasons for google to partner with the school and not enough reason  to be hyperbolic in their statement about "55% of internet traffic in Nigeria". Thats just Myopic in my opinion.
Do u have an idea the internet traffic volume in ordinary local benin city   "u wan try boyz "

abelian:

SMH at the bolded
Nigerians and there assumptions how many universities have you been to?

tunde300us:

If this claim is 1/100th of a truth then students in that school must have their brains checked for virus  

Secondly i cant believe that some ppl on NL here will believe such madness.Pls take a second and imagine the mumu talk of multinationals routing their IP from their host country and some NL ppl re quoting such .

What is the total bandwidth that the school has ? say dem mad reach na STM1 (161MBPS) and just a small ISP like mobitel that just started yesterday has almost STM16 which is way *4 of STM1.

And who says that school is the only school with total wifi coverage is still living in the stone ages where ppl are told that africans live on trees and he believes it.Go to schools like UNILAG,OAU,UI and u will see wifi almost everywhere (necessary) it is one thing to have total wifi and another to have wifi in useless places like in the zoo at UI for example.

Even if there is wifi, does it have internet connected to it all the time ? if u are a wifi person u will undastand that there are periods of the day when you loose internet connectivity to some of your radios and yet there is wifi oh.

Nigerians will believe anything cos its from google.Maybe sanusi will tell us tomorrow that 55% of all money transaction is from maiduguri and yet some ppl here on NL will believe it and starting mumu postulation about how alqaeda has brought money to maiduguri and now 55% of moni transaction is now from there