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Path: hobbes.sco.COM!garyh
From: [e-mail] (Gary H)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Speed test for modem check??
Date: 28 Jan 1996 13:17:52 GMT
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Distribution: inet
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In article <4e4uif$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sergio Estevao) writes:
!Einar Bergsmo Gilberg ([e-mail]) wrote:
!: [e-mail] (Steven Gibson) wrote:
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!: >[e-mail] (beads) wrote:
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!: >> I am connected via  my 28.8 modem to my server, via a PPP account.
!: >>There are times I seem to be very slow through my Netscape browser,
!: >>version 1.22, and other times fast. My server claims that all the
!: >>modems that are connected to his 28.8 number are working fine.
!: >>If I download something through Netscape, I usually  average
!: >>2.6 KB/per second..  Does this spund correct for a 28.8 modem?

That is actually pretty good.  I have a Hayes Optima 28.8K PCMCIA Modem
and I can get around 1.5k-2.0k.  With my Intel 14.4k, I can get about 1.2-1.4k.

Anyways, on the Optima, I set my DTE speed to 230k.

Gary


!: >>  Thanks for any reply, or info how I might be able to check out
!: >>my true on-line speed...
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!: >I have the same setup, but when downloading from the net my speed
!: >starts out at 2.0, but then goes down to a low of 0.3, and thens
!: >usually ends up at 0.8.  What am I doing wrong?
!: >Thanks
!
!: I have also the same setup, and transfer speed is as low as 0,5 cps.
!: This problem will be gone, if you buy a new serial-port with 16650
!: UART. You probably just have 8250 UART, which was supplied with
!: old-PCs. They don't have a buffer, and tend to slow down transfer
!: rates. The serial port, can't keep up with the large amount of data
!: transfered by the modem, and the modem have to keep repeating the
!: transfer-operation over and over again..
!
!: So, buy a 16650 UART serial port. I will.... :)
!
!If you want more speed buy internal modems wich have 16650 UART's
!internally.
!
!Regards
!Sergio Estevao
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