RE: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread DaZZa
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dave Kempe wrote: > > download faster than it uploads. In theory you can get a full 56k > > download speed, but not upload (all depending on line quality). > > That is all defined by the V.90 standard. An article on Slashdot a while > back suggest that the IEEE is going to ch

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Tom Massey
Dave Kempe wrote: > That is all defined by the V.90 standard. An article on Slashdot a while > back suggest that the IEEE is going to change it with a new standard. Make > it symetrical both ways . I can't find any info so maybe im dreaming about > that bit. Just gotta wait for damn communication

RE: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Kempe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/21/0242231&mode=nested thatd be it. Any one tried V.92 or even support it? dave > That is all defined by the V.90 standard. An article on Slashdot a while > back suggest that the IEEE is going to change it with a new standard. Make > it symetrical both

RE: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Kempe
> Sounds about right to me. But I think there's a difference in the speed > a 56k modem can upload and download - downloads should be faster, > because there you're changing digital to analogue, which should work > better than the analogue to digital required for uploading info. I think > I've go

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Rennie
> Sounds about right to me. But I think there's a difference in the speed > a 56k modem can upload and download - downloads should be faster, > because there you're changing digital to analogue, which should work > better than the analogue to digital required for uploading info. I think > I've got

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Tom Massey
Jason Rennie wrote: > > > I've (very) occasionally seen 9-10 KB/s, fairly regularly get around 7, > > most often it's around 5-6. I find it amusing that this is with a Lucent > > This apparent speed is actually hardware compression in the modem, or > software compession by the computers. Unless

RE: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Rennie
> mirror.aarnet we had 6.5-7.0k/s for 3 days straight. > It was awesome. I dunnno why that was happening but it was definitely so. > The average out over 3 days was correct too. So it wasn't just crazy client > figures. Go dingo! :) Maybe that is the upper limit, maybe the iso had some redundanc

RE: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Kempe
When leeching the debian Alpha isos over our dingoblue 56k connection to mirror.aarnet we had 6.5-7.0k/s for 3 days straight. It was awesome. I dunnno why that was happening but it was definitely so. The average out over 3 days was correct too. So it wasn't just crazy client figures. Go dingo! :)

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Tom Massey
Dave Fitch wrote: > > Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've (very) occasionally seen 9-10 KB/s, fairly regularly get around 7, > > most often it's around 5-6. > > yeah but that's throughput isn't it? True - my 'real' speed is probably closer to 3-4 KB/s at max. > I'm curious that people don'

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Rennie
> I've (very) occasionally seen 9-10 KB/s, fairly regularly get around 7, > most often it's around 5-6. I find it amusing that this is with a Lucent This apparent speed is actually hardware compression in the modem, or software compession by the computers. Unless of course you manage this sort of

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Rennie
> interesting you say "good quality lines" and that you get 50,667 > connects. I too get 50667 or 49333 connects and always called > my phone line "reasonable". Is there anyone that gets more > than 50667k from their 56k modem? When i was working for isp's, i was lead to belive that it wasn't a

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Fitch
Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dave Fitch wrote: > > interesting you say "good quality lines" and that you get 50,667 > > connects. I too get 50667 or 49333 connects and always called > > my phone line "reasonable". Is there anyone that gets more > > than 50667k from their 56k modem? > > I'v

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Tom Massey
Dave Fitch wrote: > interesting you say "good quality lines" and that you get 50,667 > connects. I too get 50667 or 49333 connects and always called > my phone line "reasonable". Is there anyone that gets more > than 50667k from their 56k modem? I've (very) occasionally seen 9-10 KB/s, fairly

Re: modem connect speeds (was Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL RIP-OFF)

2000-08-09 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
> > interesting you say "good quality lines" and that you get 50,667 > connects. I too get 50667 or 49333 connects and always called > my phone line "reasonable". Is there anyone that gets more > than 50667k from their 56k modem? > I friend in hornsby, who was very close to the exchange was ge