Issue Seven - Conversations on Technology, Business and Society
Issue Seven - Conversations on Technology, Business and Society
Issue Seven - Conversations on Technology, Business and Society
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PC Tech Magazine Down: 42.49mb/s Up: 20.16mb/s. Speedtest results in Tokyo, Japan. A 700MB movie<br />
takes 3 minutes to download. When is such internet reaching Ug<strong>and</strong>a? August 21 at 8:08pm<br />
You, Allan Mutabazi, Almuc Emrys, D<strong>on</strong>ah A. <strong>and</strong> 6 others like this.<br />
Davis Damn! Copying or Downloading?...it will<br />
reach LDCs in some century to come. August 21 at 8:12pm<br />
Patrick It wl reach us whn the stake holders<br />
realise its importance. August 21 at 8:40pm<br />
Isaac it can reach <strong>on</strong>ly if our service providers<br />
want it to <strong>and</strong> plus the government should also<br />
interven <strong>and</strong> do something..... August 21 at 8:44pm<br />
PC Tech Magazine Its infact easier to<br />
download a movie than to look for a flash disk to<br />
copy it from your friend's PC! August 21 at 8:47pm<br />
Isaac thats impressive jst pray such internet<br />
reaches us very fast.. August 21 at 8:51pm<br />
Davis @PC Tech,Balas,Pat,lets hope for an<br />
improvement with an introducti<strong>on</strong> of Fibre optic<br />
cable ...thse Service Providers r singing 3G just<br />
in very few areas ,,upcountry villages can't pick it<br />
..other countries r testing 4G now when even 3G<br />
has picked in LDC..I'm an African but I hate our<br />
sluggishness August 21 at 8:54pm<br />
Davis I meant that even 3G hasn't picked in<br />
LDCs at a desirable level... August 21 at 8:57pm<br />
Ibra It will reach when Ug<strong>and</strong>a builds a nuclear<br />
reactor. August 21 at 9:33pm<br />
D<strong>on</strong>ah What is a nuclear reactor? August 21 at 9:38pm<br />
Alex It will reach Ug<strong>and</strong>a probably the time<br />
when our country will be hosting World cup!! August<br />
21 at 9:39pm<br />
PC Tech Magazine LOL!! Nuclear Reactors<br />
<strong>and</strong> World Cup in Ug<strong>and</strong>a! @D<strong>on</strong>ah http://<br />
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_technology<br />
August 21 at 9:41pm<br />
PC Tech Magazine @Davis Foris Telecom<br />
has launched 4G in Ug<strong>and</strong>a. Read http://bit.ly/<br />
a95OHd August 21 at 9:44pm<br />
Alex Man this is so embarrassing just follow<br />
this link to see my speed net results....http://www.<br />
speedtest.net/result/923075210.png. it takes me a<br />
whooping 673 min to download a 700MB movie<br />
Am ashamed of them!! August 21 at 9:47pm<br />
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Software<br />
DVD<br />
Skype is a VoIP soluti<strong>on</strong> that<br />
allows you to make free<br />
Skype-to-Skype calls & calls<br />
to traditi<strong>on</strong>al ph<strong>on</strong>e lines.<br />
7-Zip is an open source<br />
file compressi<strong>on</strong> utility that<br />
works with many formats.<br />
Auslogics Disk Defrag is<br />
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Easter stick 2 Zains 238 kbp/s. Yeah...faster of<br />
all... August 21 at 10:10pm<br />
Miriam there is even faster than that japan<br />
results, imagine Gigabyte c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong>s in<br />
europe....! for UG: you change to Orange, it's<br />
quite fast... August 21 at 10:14pm<br />
PC Tech Magazine How about this 2.35MBps<br />
http://speedtest.net/result/923100854.png from<br />
MTN? And i have got higher results in the past.<br />
August 21 at 10:19pm<br />
PC Tech Magazine @Miriam there's an ISP in<br />
Europe who has an average of 55Mbps. So you<br />
can <strong>on</strong>ly imagine what the highest speed is. August<br />
21 at 10:29pm<br />
Miriam for sure this speed test is not an<br />
adequate tool, if even Philadelphia has worse<br />
figures than ug<strong>and</strong>a. And I know, my browser can<br />
really suck bits when I download. Do not always<br />
blame the network, blame also your browser! August<br />
21 at 10:35pm<br />
Miriam Gigabit-internet: http://www.expedient.<br />
com/products/gigabit-internet-access.php August 21<br />
at 10:37pm<br />
Miriam NetCologne in germany has also uptu<br />
1Bbps lowest level c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong> with 155Mbps August<br />
21 at 10:41pm<br />
David Lets not look at jst the technology but<br />
also the techno-ec<strong>on</strong>omics. It's not that ISPs can't<br />
get up those speeds, no. B<strong>and</strong>width(internet<br />
speed) is a "good" like anyother goods That's<br />
subjected to the ec<strong>on</strong>omic laws of dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
supply.for in...stance are Ug<strong>and</strong>ans able <strong>and</strong><br />
willing to have megabits/sec net at their homes at<br />
e cost of e ISP. Do we have mega datacentres at<br />
businesses to justify 40Mbps c<strong>on</strong>nectivity? Other<br />
c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>s include pc/IT literacy levels. How<br />
much local do we have <strong>on</strong> the net...so still l<strong>on</strong>g<br />
way to go but this is not to mean that ISPs shld<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinue to give us backbreaking speeds. August 21<br />
is its free.<br />
GIMP is a fantastic photo editor for<br />
amateurs who need to do some editing to<br />
their photos but d<strong>on</strong>’t want to shell out for<br />
something like Photoshop.<br />
Notepad++ is a text editor that supports<br />
multiple tabs, multiple programming<br />
languages <strong>and</strong> a whole lot more.<br />
Eraser helps you make sure that files you<br />
have deleted are truly g<strong>on</strong>e forever. Great<br />
at 10:51pm<br />
Easter @miriam dat has sense. Browser<br />
matters so much. August 21 at 10:55pm<br />
Norman @David.... ur post does make lots of<br />
sense... I thk e speed mtn/orange r providing now<br />
r good enough at e moment c<strong>on</strong>sidering what<br />
people r willing to pay....because it doesn't make<br />
sense for a provider to give ahigh yet very few r<br />
willing to meet the cost,just w<strong>on</strong>dering all u guys<br />
who thk Ug is doin badly....how much are u willing<br />
to spend <strong>on</strong> interest per m<strong>on</strong>th! August 22 at 12:46am<br />
Miriam it is just interesting: URA for exampla<br />
wants you (as a business) to pay your taxes<br />
<strong>on</strong>line <strong>and</strong> they refuse the papers, but there is<br />
NOT an internet infrastructure than can ensure<br />
access. As a german I have to register <strong>on</strong>line<br />
to the embassy'...s list. For <strong>on</strong>e year I could not<br />
manage to get to the end of that procedure: so<br />
no registering, because paper was refused...<br />
Does it make sense to put a roof before<br />
foundati<strong>on</strong>? So why do ministries <strong>and</strong> others<br />
require internet, while UG cannot provide??? August<br />
22 at 3:49pm<br />
David Interesting discussing over there though<br />
i d<strong>on</strong>'t think i understood miriam's submissi<strong>on</strong><br />
esp wen she says "UG can't provide". Also d<strong>on</strong>'t<br />
get david's submissi<strong>on</strong> that "slow internet makes<br />
more m<strong>on</strong>ey" though from ure discussi<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong>e<br />
fact is clear-UG I.T infrastructure is still premature<br />
with even the existing market. August 22 at 7:13pm<br />
Emmanuel these high speed networks a<br />
very expensive, they cost billi<strong>on</strong>s of shillings to<br />
buy <strong>and</strong> operate unless gov't subsidies the cost<br />
the networks have to wait for the hardware/<br />
operati<strong>on</strong>s cost to come down though Rw<strong>and</strong>atel<br />
runs a true 3G unlimited c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong> at roughly<br />
120,000/m<strong>on</strong>th, a youtube video of 200mb<br />
downloads in less than 8 minutes after 11. August 22<br />
at 8:27pm<br />
tool for getting pers<strong>on</strong>al info off a hard<br />
drive before giving away or selling your<br />
computer.<br />
KeePass Password Safe manages your<br />
passwords.<br />
Batterybar is a free meter that sits in the<br />
taskbar <strong>and</strong> shows the battery gauge. It<br />
also tracks lots of stats about the battery<br />
performance, <strong>and</strong> over time is extremely<br />
accurate.<br />
And lots more<br />
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