Downloading in UNN cyber with my laptop.

Is it the enugu campus ie UNEC. I was at Afrihub sometime early this year and was able to get that much too,but it was in the night oh.There is no cafe that can pay for dat amount of bandwidth even if na intercontinental dey bankroll am

go to speedtest.net and test it

There is something suspect with your claim. How can you be downloading a 700MB file for over 30 min at 700kb/s? It should take around 20 min or even less

mavor if you ever download with idman u'll know that when the speed spikes suddenly, the time lags (i.e takes some time to catch up)

I use IDM well, anyway that speed is awesome. The highest I've ever gotten was 973kb/s back in school those days(Ife)

Poster, Dis is very slow

That much speed in a cyber cafe? Probably 1 hour should be 1500 naira

The pictures are legitimate. You can also get up to 1000kbps + on the MTN 3g modem at midnight

The Cafe is in UNN nsukka. UNN cybercafe, but I can bet it is 10 times faster than Afrrihub and even cheaper. In fact I hate Afrihub, they block downloads with their software and the changed the explorer shell of the system to a different one making it hard to use

@Mavor: Forget the time transitions in IDMAN. It is not always correct, but I don't even need you to believe me, coz I am not gaining anything from that.

Na u sabi. me sha dey look forward to the day somebody hacks that stupid 3GB monthly limit thing on MTN, then I will purchase it. God punish them. An insider told me that it's some top Igbo boys in MTN who convinced mgmt to institute the stupid thing. 3GB for pete's sake. If it was 10GB at least that will be reasonable. Can't people file a petition to MTN? Only God will help us with the bandwidth wahala in this country. Even Ghana here are far better off.

I thought it had always been 10GB. I haven't used it before though

I still stand on my argument that u wouldnt get that much during the peak periods of the day cos what i suspect is tht the cafe is sharing from a pool of bandwidth with other cafes and when those other cafes shut down,then u might get that much.
Do u know how much 1MB of bandwidth cost with vsat?and for u to get 900kbps on the download alone then we must be looking at around a 4Mb subscription for download alone and maybe 2Mb on the upload and that in total gives about 6Mb.No school can afford that much man.
And on a professional note,i think it is crazy to allow that much bandwidth per system,maybe na mechanic be dem system administrator

Omo when it comes to Internet, Ife no be ordinary school o!!! Ife as a whole is on a 10MB connection with plans to get more last I heard. And the 900kb/s was during weekend/off-peak time. A foundation abroad pays for the bandwidth the school uses.

Men i finished from ife too and i think ure correct about the bandwidth size and even the download speed,but my last comment was to the poster.But i dont think any foundation is paying for the bandwidth in ife oh,the much i knew was that they pay via a conglomerate of other universities in africa and because it is in large volumes they get significant reduction.Dis info is straight from an INTECU source.

Oh, I never knew that. Thanks for the correct info. Makes sense

But men i doubt if u will get that much again cos the policy of allowing so much bandwidth to one system has been stopped and a more stringent one now in place,but as a whole i think IFE REALLY IS GREAT

Yeah, I heard that most downloads are at a measly 10kb/s now.

10kbps is crazy.

@Tunde: It is not owned by the school on the contrary. It was built by Soludo but that doesn't mean he is the manager either. Maybe if you come there one day. You will confirm it. We were only three in the cybercafe when I was downloading it(coz it was a saturday). But what do you mean large bandwidth should not be allowed?

Got 649 Kb/s with MTN 3g connected via my phone, i expect cafe(s) to exceed that

let's get things straight
he's talking about 600KB/s not 600kb/s
600KB/s =4.8mbps or 4800kb/s(600 x
he peaked at 779KB/s which is 6.2mbps or 6232kb/s

@init,i get ur explanation,but i need to be sure if this was just a normal cafe.Is there anyone in the house who knows how much 1mb of bandwidth is worth in the vsat market ($4000)best offer anywhere,nd one person has 6mb on the download alone,i can imagine they have a 10mb poll to tap from.

@stan,i think ure missing the point here,ur MTN is on a fibre and fibre gives u cheap bandwidth whenever ure buying bulk and for goodness sake MTN is a corporate organisation not a school and so u shldnt be surprised they can give that much.
If u remember when there was a fibre cut, mtn's usb modem was wacked and that was because they had to switch to their vsat back up first and later to NITEL sat3,if u leave those areas where fibre has gotten to,am sure u will understand that ur MTN usb modem is just as good as its location ie LAGOS,ABUJA AND MAYBE PORT HARCOURT

Well if u say na soludo build am then am sure that ur skl sef go soon get issues with sanusi cos almost $40,000 worth of bandwidth na im una dey take play so and am sure he got the money from one of those bank chiefs as a gift nd now wey dem don dey fry dem yansh dat ur school go get yawa.
All in all sha i think there is a waste somewhere

Yeah you are right to think that way. The truth is, I think they are on an e-learning project. They are upgrading their prometric centre and there is definitely something else that they are doing in two closed rooms that no one is allowed into.

@Tunde, ha! So to vsat n MTN use totally differnt sats abi na fibre u call am. . LoL, does it mean that MTN is like a bulky bandwidth n the likes? So whats d differnce between those 2? mTN n Vsat?
@ini, thanks bro, i have forgotten all these small maths sef. .

VSat= Mobile Satellite data transmission

MTN= Fibre= Satellite + Hard wired cables

Which is better?? Fibre,

@init. Thank you init for correcting the blunder I see people make the same mistake but when you try to correct them they all say "its the same its not different".

I think init said it all,but i honestly dont understand what stancozy was asking but all the same init ha just did some lecturing for all those that wants to know.
am out

Guys where can i get a really fast cafe in lagos.

Whats ur definition of fast,nd re u ready to pay for such cos NIJA LO WA !

I now understand how this network stuff work. They actually limit the bandwiths of some users. When I used my mom's account the speed was 20kbps but on some accounts it peaks at 1mbps. But on administrator accounts, it peaks at 1mbps! And it is actually owned by UNN. Soludo just built it, nothing else.

@tunde, pls dont get irritated by my ignorance. .
i now see there is a different views to d way av been viewing these network thingy. .