Public Internet Access Center Snapshot The Public Access Center (PAC),60 near Naypyidaw, was created by the regional government. It can be seen to represent a desire on the part of government to provide access to citizens, if only in a controlled and limited environment. As noted, Naypyidaw is a capital city, and thus can’t be seen as representative across the country. Current estimate puts about 2500 PACs in the whole of Myanmar.61 - The Center provides citizen access to three desktop computers, running Windows XP. Photos are included in the Appendix III. Cost of use was approximately $0.50 per hour.62 - The machines were connected with an ADSL connection with an Alcatel ADSL Home Plusplus 500 router.63 - A test run on speedtest.net to a test server in Yangon reported the following:64 o Ping time of 490ms o Download speed of .1Mbps and .05Mbps o Note that locals on the ground knew the person running the speedtest.net test server. They reported that it was not properly provisioned, and thus the results weren’t accurate. Nevertheless, the observed DSL performance was excruciatingly slow. By way of example: a 23MB download was slated to take 17 hours to complete. The time to complete on an average U.S. connection would be 2-4 minutes. - A quick virus and malware scan using a dated version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus detected approximately 100 pieces of malware on one machine.65 60 See Appendix II, Photo 1 Source, Myanmar Computer Federation See Appendix II, Photo 2 63 See Appendix II, Photo 3 64 See Appendix II, Photo 4 65 See Appendix II, Photo 5 61 62 24