Mean time between failures.
It’s hard to imagine how any ISP anywhere in the world can do worse than Lanka Bell Broadband has done over the past few months. Well Lanka Bell just did! They have outdone themselves, they have jumped...
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Broadband speeds in different parts of the world.
After having done a lot of speed tests with Sri Lankan broadband companies, I wondered if people living in other countries have to suffer through the same problems with their ISPs as well. According...
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Submarine cables severed.
The net is crawling once again (as you can see from the stats below). For once I can’t put the blame on my Internet Service Provider because a submarine cable (in fact several cables) have been cut off...
View ArticleADSL -> WiMax -> WiMax -> ADSL
Once upon a long ago, I was an SLT ADSL subscriber. I was not at all happy with the service and when moving house last year, decided to leave the link behind. What I opted for was a Dialog Broadband...
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Broadband speedtest
The other day, an idiot from SLT, tried to convince me that their 512kb/s ADSL line is as fast as a 2048kb/s WiMax link. You can expect people at SLT to make statements like that. Many of them probably...
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Content Distribution Networks any good?
CloudFront, built upon Amazon S3 is a useful cloud hosting solution because there are no monthly commitments. You pay for the bandwidth you use. Well you do end up paying twice for bandwidth unless you...
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Installing Fedora on the Aspire One (D255)
Trying to figure out why the Aspire netbook ships with Windows 7 Starter. They could have shaved a little bit off the price by shipping it with linux, Instead of charging extra for a useless OS. They...
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Broadband speeds
Sri Lankan broadband speeds have always been pathetic, the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission finally recognized this and attempted to take measures to force Broadband service providers to improve...
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Etisalat Cloud Storage
Everyone knows about Google Drive by now even though it was announced just a day ago. No one knows about Etisalat’s free 25 GB data storage. Well there is a good reason for that, it doesn’t really...
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