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Announcing AndroidMauritius and Knowledge Seven forum

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This is an article I published on the Knowledge Seven blog and which I would like to republish here on my personal blog:

Knowledge Seven is proud to announce the launching of a new Android portal at androidmauritius.com. During the past 18 months, Android use has exploded around the world and in Mauritius to become the world’s most widely-used operating system for smartphones and tablets. Google has just announced that people have downloaded Android applications more than 10 billion times hence showing how dynamic the Android ecosystem is.

AndroidMauritius provides the latest news concerning Android, reviews Android smartphones and tablets available in Mauritius, and gives tips and tricks.

Remaining faithful to Knowledge Seven’s motto ‘Sharing Expertise’, we are also glad to announce the launching of our new forum at knowledge7.com/forum. Open-source enthusiasts and IT professionnals will be able to discuss and share their knowledge on the various open-source software and technologies they use on a daily basis such as Linux, PHP/MySQL, Java. Android, etc.

We hope that you will find both AndroidMauritius and the Knowledge Seven forum useful. Feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.

Hurray! Uploads are quicker than downloads!

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I pay Orange quite a lot of money every month to have a decent Internet connection. Theoretically, I am supposed to have a 1Mbit/s downlink and a 256kbit/s uplink. In other words, I am supposed to be able to download at a rate which is four times more than the upload rate.

Right now, this is what I am currently getting when trying to download and upload something on a server in Paris, France:

I am getting 0.13 Mbit/s (133 kbit/s, which is 7.7 slower than what I am paying for…) while getting an optimal upload speed of 256kbit/s.

With a server in the middle of the Silicon Valley, I currently get:

I am getting 0.18 Mbit/s (184 kbit/s, still 5.6 times slower than what I am paying for). The upload speed has remained at around 256 kbit/s.

For both servers in France and the USA, the upload speed is greater than the download speed I can get. So, for the first time in my life, let me ironically proclaim:

Uploads are quicker than downloads in Mauritius right now thanks to Orange. I’m sure this is the only country on the planet where we have this kind of situation. Hurray!