I believe typical professional service consultancies aim for billing rates that are 2.8 to 3.3 times the employees salary to run profit margins of roughly 15%. And I would bet any things that contractors are WAY more efficient than government employees, based on my experience.
Comcast user in California using OpenDNS with following ICSI Netalyzer results:
Result Summary c-24-7-17-xxx.hsd1.ca.comcast.net / 24.7.17.xxx Recorded at 15:13 EDT (19:13 UTC) on Tue, June 09 2009. Permalink. Transcript. Wildcard DNS content. Noteworthy Events
Major Abnormalities
* We received unexpected and possibly dangerous results when looking up important names
Minor Aberrations
* Your DNS resolver returns results even when no such server exists
Address-based Tests
NAT detection: NAT Detected
Your global IP address is 24.7.17.xxx while your local one is 192.168.1.xxx. You are behind a NAT. Your local address is in unroutable address space.
Your NAT renumbers TCP source ports sequentially. The following graph shows connection attempts on the X-axis and their corresponding source ports on the Y-axis.
port sequence plot
DNS-based host information: OK You are not a Tor exit node for HTTP traffic. You are listed on the Spamhaus Policy Based Blacklist, meaning that your provider has designated your address block as one that should not be sending any email. The SORBS DUHL believes you are using a dynamically assigned IP address. Reachability Tests
General connectivity: OK Basic UDP access is available. Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed. The applet was also able to directly request a large DNS response. Direct UDP access to remote MSSQL servers (port 1434) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote FTP servers (port 21) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SSH servers (port 22) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SMTP servers (port 25) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote HTTP servers (port 80) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote POP servers (port 110) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote RPC servers (port 135) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote NetBIOS servers (port 139) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote IMAP servers (port 143) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SNMP servers (port 161) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote HTTPS servers (port 443) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SMB servers (port 445) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote SMTP/SSL servers (port 465) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote secure IMAP servers (port 585) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote authenticated SMTP servers (port 587) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote IMAP/SSL servers (port 993) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote POP/SSL servers (port 995) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SIP servers (port 5060) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote BitTorrent servers (port 6881) is allowed. Network Access Link Properties
Network latency measurements: Latency: 81ms Loss: 0.0% The round-trip time (RTT) between your computer and our server is 81 msec, which is good. We recorded no packet loss between your system and our server.
TCP connection setup latency: 98ms The time it takes your computer to set up a TCP connection with our server is 98 msec, which is good.
Network bandwidth measurements: Upload 1.0 Mbit/sec, Download 6.5 Mbit/sec Your Uplink: We measured your uplink's sending bandwidth at 1.0 Mbit/sec. This level of bandwidth works well for many users. Your Downlink: We measured your downlink's receiving bandwidth at 6.5 Mbit/sec. This level of bandwidth works well for many users.
Network buffer measurements: Uplink 370 ms, Downlink 51 ms We estimate your uplink as having 370
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I believe typical professional service consultancies aim for billing rates that are 2.8 to 3.3 times the employees salary to run profit margins of roughly 15%. And I would bet any things that contractors are WAY more efficient than government employees, based on my experience.
Hopefully this means Greenpeace will not longer use the Internet. Or their computers for that matter.
Comcast user in California using OpenDNS with following ICSI Netalyzer results:
Result Summary
c-24-7-17-xxx.hsd1.ca.comcast.net / 24.7.17.xxx
Recorded at 15:13 EDT (19:13 UTC) on Tue, June 09 2009. Permalink. Transcript. Wildcard DNS content.
Noteworthy Events
Major Abnormalities
* We received unexpected and possibly dangerous results when looking up important names
Minor Aberrations
* Your DNS resolver returns results even when no such server exists
Address-based Tests
NAT detection: NAT Detected
Your global IP address is 24.7.17.xxx while your local one is 192.168.1.xxx. You are behind a NAT. Your local address is in unroutable address space.
Your NAT renumbers TCP source ports sequentially. The following graph shows connection attempts on the X-axis and their corresponding source ports on the Y-axis.
port sequence plot
DNS-based host information: OK
You are not a Tor exit node for HTTP traffic.
You are listed on the Spamhaus Policy Based Blacklist, meaning that your provider has designated your address block as one that should not be sending any email.
The SORBS DUHL believes you are using a dynamically assigned IP address.
Reachability Tests
General connectivity: OK
Basic UDP access is available.
Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
The applet was also able to directly request a large DNS response.
Direct UDP access to remote MSSQL servers (port 1434) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote FTP servers (port 21) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SSH servers (port 22) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SMTP servers (port 25) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote HTTP servers (port 80) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote POP servers (port 110) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote RPC servers (port 135) is blocked.
This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote NetBIOS servers (port 139) is blocked.
This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote IMAP servers (port 143) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SNMP servers (port 161) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote HTTPS servers (port 443) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SMB servers (port 445) is blocked.
This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote SMTP/SSL servers (port 465) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote secure IMAP servers (port 585) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote authenticated SMTP servers (port 587) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote IMAP/SSL servers (port 993) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote POP/SSL servers (port 995) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SIP servers (port 5060) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote BitTorrent servers (port 6881) is allowed.
Network Access Link Properties
Network latency measurements: Latency: 81ms Loss: 0.0%
The round-trip time (RTT) between your computer and our server is 81 msec, which is good.
We recorded no packet loss between your system and our server.
TCP connection setup latency: 98ms
The time it takes your computer to set up a TCP connection with our server is 98 msec, which is good.
Network bandwidth measurements: Upload 1.0 Mbit/sec, Download 6.5 Mbit/sec
Your Uplink: We measured your uplink's sending bandwidth at 1.0 Mbit/sec. This level of bandwidth works well for many users.
Your Downlink: We measured your downlink's receiving bandwidth at 6.5 Mbit/sec. This level of bandwidth works well for many users.
Network buffer measurements: Uplink 370 ms, Downlink 51 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 370
I've heard of a company in the U.S. that is selling CD-ROMs containing OpenOffice for ~$10.