From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 4:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.carolina.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1106337B408 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from CONCON.enterit.com ([24.88.181.33]) by mail7.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:54:06 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010608081130.023e0898@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: jconner@enterit.com@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:15:07 -0400 To: Chris Fedde From: Jim Conner Subject: Re: data transfer Cc: "andy t" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200106080523.f585NHi27188@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris, Pretty snazzy. Andy, Just remember, you must have an absolutely stable 24/7 dialup connection to achieve this =P Well, I mean if you want to do 10G in exactly 30 days and all ;) - Jim At 11:23 PM 6/7/2001 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: >On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:06:40 -0000 "andy t" wrote: > +------------------ > | Hi, > | > | I'm looking for any software & documenration to talk about data transfer > | limitation. > | > | example: > | > | 10 GB data transfer monthly. > | > | does anybody know ? > +------------------ > >Um... Maybe I'm missing something here. But won't simple multiplication >do this for you? > > 10Gbyte = 10*(1024^3) = 10737418240 bytes > > 1 month = 30 days/month * 24 hrs/day * 60 min/hr * 60 sec/min > = 2592000 seconds > > 10737418240 / 2592000 = 4142.522 byte/sec > >So if you want to transfer 10Gbyte in a month your channel better support >at least 4Kbytes/sec. Since most data comm equipment is rated in >bits/second you need a channel that supports 32Kbits/second. So your >average 56K dialup might just work. > >-- > Chris Fedde > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - Jim - NOTJames - jconner@enterit.com - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - | Today's errors, in contrast: | - | Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" | - | UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" | - | Humans - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" | - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - (To view this properly use a non-proportional font in your MUA) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message