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Over tea and biscuits using his laptop Les Cottrell presented to Atta and Sohail the results from PingER measurements of networking in Pakistan. The main conclusion I presented was that though the Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) was well provisioned with 155 Mbits/sec links between the major cities, the university connections to PERN (the last mile) varied in capacity but were all under 2Mbits/s. Consequently these links were badly congested resulting in large jitter and packet loss that was observed by PingER. Some of these results were published and presented at a conference in India taht I that Les attended on the way to Pakistan
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