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mwekez@ji
#21 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:19:00 AM
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jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?
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#22 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:58:43 AM
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mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.
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#23 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:05:42 AM
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jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.

Jaggernut this is a speedtest to a server within nairobi most probably hosted by your ISP. Do a speedtest to a server lets say in the UK or US coz 99% of the traffic we use is hosted there. Else the results pasted above are irrelevant.
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#24 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:06:56 AM
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jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.



@jaggernaut .why have you blocked the isp name ? those speeds are crazy !
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QW25091985
#25 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:09:09 AM
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chumachumz wrote:
jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.

Jaggernut this is a speedtest to a server within nairobi most probably hosted by your ISP. Do a speedtest to a server lets say in the UK or US coz 99% of the traffic we use is hosted there. Else the results pasted above are irrelevant.



there's really no big difference trust me . itsnot like when he pings a server in the US the speed will drop by a half !
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#26 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:23:04 AM
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QW25091985 wrote:
chumachumz wrote:
jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.

Jaggernut this is a speedtest to a server within nairobi most probably hosted by your ISP. Do a speedtest to a server lets say in the UK or US coz 99% of the traffic we use is hosted there. Else the results pasted above are irrelevant.



there's really no big difference trust me . itsnot like when he pings a server in the US the speed will drop by a half !


There is a very big difference. I wish jaggernut would do the actual speedtests and post the results here. Doing a speedtest on a kenyan server is like doing a test on a LAN.
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#27 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:02:17 PM
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QW25091985 wrote:
jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.



@jaggernaut .why have you blocked the isp name ? those speeds are crazy !

I blocked it coz I don't want to give free publicity to the ISP company.
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#28 Posted : Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:05:45 PM
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jaggernaut wrote:
QW25091985 wrote:
jaggernaut wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:

jaggernaut wrote:

i do enjoy download speeds of over 55mbps in my office in Nairobi!



Here's another test result.



How much do you pay for this?


It's an institution and we are on fibre though I do not have details of how much we are paying.



@jaggernaut .why have you blocked the isp name ? those speeds are crazy !

I blocked it coz I don't want to give free publicity to the ISP company.



come on man . lol..it must be the kenya education network . or something like that i know it (KENET). their speeds are crazy !!!!
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#29 Posted : Saturday, July 21, 2012 1:03:33 PM
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I always love hearing great stuff about our country. I totally agree that we have awesome speeds. Feel free to vote on this poll on which the best internet service provider in Kenya is.

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#30 Posted : Friday, August 17, 2012 8:19:45 AM
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#31 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 9:42:28 AM
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@Jaggernut,I wish to draw ur attention here.

Ysterday I had a rough time trying to drive sense into the heads of a few discombobulated nigerians.
You know how they argue and how hard it is to convince them that other countries are fairing better than them.
I have never seen an ignorant and proud people.Even if you tell them we have oil in Kenya they will argue to prove that u do not.
Until you present the facts and silence them.But there are still those who are too thick and believe that Kenya doesn't even have roads.They think we are jungle and believe we stay glued watching their Nollywood trash 24/7. nkt.

This is what a poster posted that elicited major responses so I joined in the fray cz they rubbished Kenya and Ghana Internet speeds.

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According to the latest report by Akamai Technologies Global Internet Platform on the State of the Internet in Africa, Nigeria has the fastest internet speed in the continent.

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa in terms of Internet speed. This is coming less than eleven years after reforming its communications networks and market.

The report revealed that Nigeria has an average connection speed of 322kbps with a peak rate of 5674kbps. South Africa on the other hand has a faster average speed of 496kbps, but the country’s peak speed is only half that of Nigeria, at 2172kbps.

“All mobile providers had average peak connection speeds above 2 mbps, though last place South African provider, ZA-1 was just above the threshold, losing over 13 per cent from the prior quarter, at 2.2 mbps,” IT News Africa reported.



I ran to this thread and posted ur Speeds which left them mouth open Laughing out loudly, but again that was a server connection they said.
True it was I made it clear. They told me;

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You're comparing mobile data (3G/HSPA) with a copper or fiber connection. Users in Nigeria are getting Internet off their mobile provider.
Can you provide us with Safaricom or Airtel speeds over their 3G network?


I did a speed test on my laptop at home and prayed hard that the results exceed what they kept posting and voila!
Safcom did not let me down.smile See below my speed and compare it with the best so far in Nigeria.

NIGERIA

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And they were like 3 major networks averaging well over 1 mb/sec. thaat would surrely put us among the top league.



KENYA MINE





GHANA



They are not commenting now.Laughing out loudly






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essyk
#32 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 10:05:50 AM
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And the official one?




Now I noticed something.

Nigeria with 4.54Mb/s is graded A- (Faster than 82% of nigeria)
Kenya with 6.31Mb/s is given a B- (Faster than 64% of kenya)


Does this mean that the 4.54Mb/s for nigeria is similar to a C in Kenya?

Mind explaining that to me please?

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Museveni
#33 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 11:04:03 AM
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How about this
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#34 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 11:30:50 AM
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Museveni wrote:
How about this

OMG! Is it cz you are the president?


WHEN WILL KENYA DEVELOP LTE??

Can somebody shed light on LTE please?


Ai where are the tech savvy guys?
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Museveni
#35 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 1:34:00 PM
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essyk wrote:
Museveni wrote:
How about this

OMG! Is it cz you are the president?


WHEN WILL KENYA *DEVELOP* LTE??



We barely have 3G coverage! Countrywide 3G coverage should be a priority..

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#36 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 1:48:43 PM
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@M7 thanks for the correction.

SAFCOM had already embarked on a testdrive. No? not yet commercialised. It was to be done in 2 phases I think.
Then this;

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Kenya’s Safaricom has said it will pull out of a joint venture to build an LTE network in the county if it is forced by its government to use the 2.6GHz frequency band. The company has pointed out that the 2.6GHz frequency band will make it be prohibitively expensive to build out an LTE network across the country, due to its limited range. Safaricom is instead seeking assurances that it will be able to use 700MHz, which requires far fewer base stations and has higher in building penetration capabilities.

“We would want to know the frequency band that will be used; if it is not the 700MHz then they (government) may consider our self out of it,” said Nzioka Waita, Safaricom’s corporate affairs director told Business Daily Africa.

Currently the licenses for 700MHz frequencies are used by TV broadcasters, who are currently unlikely to hit a June 2012 deadline for digital switchover.

Safaricom’s move will impact the Kenyan government’s plans as it is one of the few companies that is able to raise the capital to invest in an LTE network build-out. The Kenyan government has stated its intention for an LTE network in the country in October last year, to be created through a Private Public Partnership (PPP) which would include, Airtel Kenya, Essar Telecom Kenya (yu) and Telkom Kenya (Orange Kenya); local broadband providers Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and MTN Business Kenya and global vendors Alcatel-Lucent (France), Epesi Technologies (US) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN, Finland).


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#37 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 2:36:06 PM
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essyk wrote:
@M7 thanks for the correction.

SAFCOM had already embarked on a testdrive. No? not yet commercialised. It was to be done in 2 phases I think.
Then this;

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Kenya’s Safaricom has said it will pull out of a joint venture to build an LTE network in the county if it is forced by its government to use the 2.6GHz frequency band. The company has pointed out that the 2.6GHz frequency band will make it be prohibitively expensive to build out an LTE network across the country, due to its limited range. Safaricom is instead seeking assurances that it will be able to use 700MHz, which requires far fewer base stations and has higher in building penetration capabilities.

“We would want to know the frequency band that will be used; if it is not the 700MHz then they (government) may consider our self out of it,” said Nzioka Waita, Safaricom’s corporate affairs director told Business Daily Africa.

Currently the licenses for 700MHz frequencies are used by TV broadcasters, who are currently unlikely to hit a June 2012 deadline for digital switchover.

Safaricom’s move will impact the Kenyan government’s plans as it is one of the few companies that is able to raise the capital to invest in an LTE network build-out. The Kenyan government has stated its intention for an LTE network in the country in October last year, to be created through a Private Public Partnership (PPP) which would include, Airtel Kenya, Essar Telecom Kenya (yu) and Telkom Kenya (Orange Kenya); local broadband providers Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and MTN Business Kenya and global vendors Alcatel-Lucent (France), Epesi Technologies (US) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN, Finland).




Just one IF says alot about that happening . . Sembuse mbili ?
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#38 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 2:40:59 PM
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sambusa tatu.

But I dey hear u President.
So which country has the best Internet in Africa?

4get the last report.

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#39 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 3:38:08 PM
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essyk wrote:
sambusa tatu.

But I dey hear u President.
So which country has the best Internet in Africa?

4get the last report.



Shouldn't the Question be which nation has the highest percentage of fiber connectivity ?

Then compare against the outside connectivity i.e the capacity of connecting cable[s] from the rest of the world.

I would say Kenya has a lead in this owing to recent investment in fiber by the GoK and Other companies with TEAMS (1280 gigabits) + Seacom (1280 gigabits) and EASSy (1400 gigabits) landing at Mombasa [note: All connecting to one of the high capacity (3800+ gigabits) backbone]
See ->

With more investment to deliver fiber to the home and a price revision for the masses to afford real broadband [@least 1mb/s] potential for economic Rudisha leap = infinity
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#40 Posted : Friday, August 24, 2012 11:25:10 PM
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Wow,this is more than I asked for.
Keep it here please.Am sure gonna need it or keep referring to it.
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