Get-there-itis

Peter Duniho wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
The sustained average of the video page is about 12-15 megabits/sec,
with peaks in the mid to high 30's in the middle of the day and an
occasional trip into the mid 40's.

For those of us who have no idea what that means, can you translate,
please?

It's "fair to middlin'".

In addition to Peter's excellent explanation, here is another way to
look at it. A few years back, the standard way to get a "big" chunk of
bandwidth was to have a T1 connection, which is just a little over 1.5
megabits/sec. A T1 is equal to 24 voice phone calls at once, at standard
land-line quality. So, if you average 12-15 megabits/sec, that's about
the same as having 192 to 240 people on the phone with you at once. If
you're doing 36 megabits/sec, that's 576 people on the phone, and 48
megabits/sec would be 768 people on the phone.

To be clear, this doesn't mean that you have 192 to 768 people downloading
videos from your Web site at once. If everybody still had 56k modems,
that would be true, but quite a number of people have faster connections
now, as Peter pointed out.

Yet another way to look at it is that uncompressed CD-quality stereo
audio is about 1.4 megabits/sec. FM radio isn't quite that quality, but
it's fairly close. So, your average of 12-15 megabits/sec is roughly
equal to operating 8 to 10 FM radio stations at once. 36 megabits/sec
would be about 25 radio stations at once, and 48 megabits/sec would be
about 34 radio stations at once.

Matt Roberds

But you may have the about the most traffic of any
non-porn web site that most people have never heard of.

Now THAT is damned with faint praise! ;-)

Considering the volume of emails I (and Tony, my aviation technical
advisor) receive about the videos, it sure seems like a LOT of people
have heard of it.

Now if only all of them would come visit us in Iowa, we'd really have
something here...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"