PART 1: QUESTIONS @@1================================================================ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 20:43:00 PDT From: "Laurence I. Press" To: "Pimienta Daniel " Subject: Re: Redes en el Caribe Cc: archie_marshall@umail.umd.edu, shahn@umd5.umd.edu Message-Id: Dear Saul, Daniel, and Archie, I am writing a report on Cuba and am trying to put it in a Caribbean perspective, but am confused by what seem to be conflicting documents on Randy Bush's gopher. The first is: gopher://rip.psg.com/0R26740-40227-/networks/connect/caribbean by Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu, which states that: "The addition of new UUCP nodes in Belize, Guyana, St. Vincent and Trinidad has driven user levels well above the two thousand (2,000) mark." ******* Then in gopher://rip.psg.com/0R0-24217-/networks/connect/caribbean, Daniel makes very differnt estimates based on assumptions of traffic per user and CUnet traffic figures. Daniel estimates: ISO-CODE AVG MBytes PROJ. POPULATION COUNTRY COUNTRY Per Month USERS (MILLION) Antigua and Bermuda AG 1.06 2 .07 Bahamas BS 4.15 8 .25 Barbados BB 8.59 17 .26 Belize BZ 13.74 28 .19 Dominican Rep CUNET DO 3.62 7 7.00 ***Dominican Rep REDID DO 60.00 120 7.00 Grenada GR 0.63 1 .10 Guyana GY 0.10 1 .80 St. Lucia LC 11.72 24 .14 Vincent and Gren. VC 0.79 2 .11 Suriname SR 2.29 5 .42 Trinidad/Tobago TT 17.14 34 1.30 _________________________________________________________ TOTAL CUNET 66.92 129 10.64 TOTAL REDID 60.00 120 7.00 Well, 129 and 2,000 are pretty far apart, and I am confused. Can someone clear this up for me? Thanks, Larry Press p. s. -- I am fighting a deadline, so a quick answer would be helpful.