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Thanks to David, Fezal, Bharat and Selven (and taking into account my own data), I’ve collected more than 300 measurements over the week. I owe each of them a nice lunch at Lotus and a drink :-)

As a reminder, we all downloaded a 100kb and a 1000kb file from the US and Europe three times per day (hence 12 readings) for the whole week (including Saturday and Sunday).

Now that the data collection process has finished, I am now embarking on the analysis phase. I’ll use my limited knowledge of statistics to prove (or, perhaps, disprove) the following: Mauritius Telecom is not giving us the bandwidth we are paying for and, consequently, we are being robbed of the opportunity to participate in the Web 2.0 revolution.

Of course, I’ll keep you informed. I’m setting myself the deadline of Friday 20 July to finish writing an academic paper containing this analysis.

Thanks, once again, to all those who have helped me.

Thanks to David Channe Vy, Fezal Ackburally and Inf (what’s your real name?) and coupled with my own data, I am getting a pretty interesting picture of our ADSL connections.

Here are some observations:

• The minimum bandwidth is at 22:30 (I got a record low of 1% of expected bandwidth last night)
• The average bandwidth (during the whole day and for all of us) is only 44.37%. This clearly indicates that we are NOT getting what we are paying for. 44.37% is not best effort!
• Sometimes (and generally at 8:30 when everyone else is stranded in his/her car on his/her way to Port-Louis) we get peak bandwidths of 75-80% of what we are paying for. Where is the missing 20%?

Anyway, let’s continue with the data gathering process. Thanks to those who are helping.

5 July update

Same behavior as previously. I consistently get an average of around 65-70% of what I’m paying for for my MyT 256. David Channe Vy consistently gets an average of only 35-40% of his ADSL 512. Are MyT users being prioritized?

Bharat, Selven and Fezal are also sending me data.

I think that Saturday and Sunday will give us some interesting raw figures to analyze.