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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Program to display connect speed?
- Message-ID: <DM2zEq.86y@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4emtu7$rl@news.nyc.pipeline.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:04:01 GMT
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- Peter W. Lin (petel@pipeline.com) writes:
- > I'm looking for a program to display my actual connect speed while
- > downloading. Tried modemsta, but it does not display connect
- > speed--just has pretty lights. Could anyone recommend a good program?
- > Now I'm using my watch and a calculator! TIA!
-
- The newest version of ModemSta will display the rate of data sent
- from the remote com port to your comport (which ends up being your cps
- before you take in to account protocol overhead), however it does not
- display the actual modem to modem connect rate (eg. 26.4 or 28.8).
- Unforutnatly it's simply not possible to report this unless you get a
- program set up to periodically drop the modem into command mode and send
- it a command to get the modem to display it's connect rate (and some
- modems just don't have such a command). And you wouldn't really want
- software doing that, since it would pause your connect for a good 3 or 4
- seconds at least each time it did this, which would get rather annoying.
- The problem is that the modem doesn't actualy tell the computer what speed
- it's sending data to the other computer at, with all the on-board
- buffering, error control and data compression, it doesn't need too. It
- just tells the computer what rate it should send and recieve data to/from
- the modem.
-
- Anyway, while this modemsta program may not give you your actual
- connect rate, it should at least be a good replacement for your
- modem/calculator.
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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