Hi Ian,
On 13-May-02, you wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:22, Greg Zolot wrote:
>
>> Yes, those figures sound right to me. That's more like what I should be
>> getting with my 33.6k modem. But, based on a recent d/l of a 10.4MB file
>> that took roughly 1 and a quarter hours, I seem to be getting as much as
>> around 2400 cps (~19300bps), still a ways short of what you got.
>
> Excuse me... That'd be 21600 bps, if you use 8-N-1 which is 9 bits /
> char.
Um, if you're figuring in the protocol overhead, yeah it's 8N1 I'm using.
But I was just figuring the net throughput (8 bits/char).
> And, 33.6 is the pysical max if your not transfering text files... since
> the compression in a 33.6 modem isn't *that* efficient.
It's my understanding that it's supposed to compress things that are not
text, and even a little bit things that are already compressed. A 33.6K
modem isn't that efficient compared to what, a 56K, a 28.8K?
Regards
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