James Knott wrote:
Charlie Seaman wrote:
James Knott wrote:
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On Friday 12 October 2007 10:49:16 eileen clerkin wrote:
hello I am dowloading powerpoint it is coming up as will take 11
hours is this true .....
thanks
On a dial up connection, yes it will take a very long time and it
will probably not download correctly. You will probably have to
download it several times before you get a copy that is not corrupt
due to the long download on dial up.
If there's corruption, IP is supposed to detect the error and cause a
re-transmission. It is intended to be a reliable protocol over an
unreliable medium. At worst, it should simply fail. While I'm not
claiming it's perfect, if there's file corruption, I'd suspect another
cause.
Actually, that's not true; IP does not detect errors. But TCP does.
(That's why TCP/IP provides two layers.)
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John W. Kennedy
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