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- From: tdj@ucscext.edu (Tim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 10K/sec..4K..3K..1.2K..0.3K Why???
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 04:53:39 GMT
- Organization: UCSC Extension
- Message-ID: <4fmh4j$f07@shellx.best.com>
- References: <31180B57.3779@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> <eric-1002962331440001@sobt.accessorl.net>
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- In article <eric-1002962331440001@sobt.accessorl.net>,
- eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw) wrote:
- >In article <31180B57.3779@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>, Richard Bondi
- ><rsb5c@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> wrote:
- >
- >>Got an internal Supra 28.8i PnP. When I downloads from within Netscape
- >>2.0, I get the above transfer rate decrease within one minute or so. Is
- >>this the spiralling death syndrome the Robotics modems had? In my case,
- >>it sometimes comes up again by 0.1K, so it will oscillate between 1.2K
- >>and 1.3K, say. But this always happens. Can anyone explain why, and how
- >>to stop it?
- >
- >The initially really high rates you see are due to bugs in netscapes
- >calculation of it, nothing to do with Spiraling Death. 1.2K-1.3K/s on
- >your 28.8 modem indicates that your ISP is most likely using 14.4K modems,
- >or is lacking bandwidth. Phone lines are very rarely THAT bad.
-
- Another factor to consider is that the modems are rated at kilobits per
- second, whereas the Netscape readout is kilobytes per second.
- ^^^^^
- So, a Netscape reading of 1.2K means 9.6 kilobits (which is what I average
- on my 14.4K modem when downloading Netscape images using Navigator 2.0
- running under Windows 95).
-
- Tim Johnson
-