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 of course you manage this
> sort of speed on tar.gz's or the like.
Yeah, you're right, this is a matter of compression. The faster speeds
are reading web pages etc. Downloading a tar.gz I think you'd be
extremely lucky to get above 4 KB/s.
> I was under the impression that a 56K modem couldn't physically shovel
> random data down a line fater than around 5K a second
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 that the right way around. :-) Bottom line is - a 56k modem can
download faster than it uploads. In theory you can get a full 56k
download speed, but not upload (all depending on line quality).
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