Bandwidth is usually measured in (mega)bits per second (Mbps).My best simplification of it is to think of it as a road -> comparing the current dual carriageway  thika road to a (hopefully soon) 5 lane Nairobi Thika road.

As for the second part of the question, there are pro's in the house who can answer it better than I can.

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Watson Kambo <wkwats@gmail.com> wrote:


Guys please enlighten me; are we talking MBs' or Mbs'?
If my connection is 1Mb is this the connection all the way to the net, say for example Safcom offers me 2Mb is this the speed to the net?
Are there diffrent costs to the Band width; If I wanted to link up my offices say in Mombasa Kisumu Nairobi .. this is kind of local content... If I had a an Office say in London, Cairo that would mean am using the Undersea cable are they sold diffrently...

Sorry forgive my ignorance I am not in the Know of these things...



2009/6/15 Riyaz Bachani <riyaz.bachani@ke.wananchi.com>

and the practice by ISPs the world over. In the US, Europe you get a 2mb, 5mb service etc.
Prices of bandwidth in the US are say anywhere between $10-30 range per mb. Yet they sell the
services for less, like $20. The internet is shared, there is no dedicated internet.

R




----- Original Message -----
From: "Michuki Mwangi" <michuki.mwangi@gmail.com>
To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
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Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:43:27 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] USD 600 per MB on KDN's Fiber Network ??$%^^&*&*

Hi Martin,

Martin Muraguri wrote:
> Just saw this ad in the Daily Nation..
> Well from what my maths teacher said ..like 20 years ago
> if *USD 600 = 1000kb*
> then
> *256kb = USD 153.6 = KSH 10752*
>

This is what you would pay for a non-contended link. Some ISPs my offer
that service but in normal practice that every 1MB is sold to an average
ratio of 1:5 or higher.

In such a case then you can divide the 600 by a value between 5 - 10 and
see what it will cost on a contended circuit which is what most end
users will buy. Some demanding Corporates will request for the
non-contended links. Therefore;

600/5 = USD 120 = 9,360/pm
600/10 = USD 60 = 4,680/pm

PS: I dont speak for KDN but speculating based on current ISP practice.

Regards,

Mich.


> Is this not too expensive ... How and when is the price of Internet
> connections going to come down?
>
> The last thing i want is a Super Fast connection i cant afford!!
>
> Maina Muraguri.
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