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  1. Path: felix.teclink.net!usenet
  2. From: ksansom@teclink.net (Kirk Sansom)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: Shouldn't avg. file transfers speed match modem speed?
  5. Date: 12 Feb 1996 06:25:54 GMT
  6. Organization: TECLink Internet Services: info@TECLink.Net
  7. Message-ID: <4fmmhi$2gm@felix.teclink.net>
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  11. I've noticed that the average file transfer speed for my generic Rockwell 
  12. chip 14.4k modem is anywhere from 1.4 to .7 kilobytes per second for 
  13. binaries.
  14.  
  15. I realize that there can be a number of factors influencing actual data flow 
  16. such as the number of other users on downloading data from the same site at 
  17. the same time, but it just seems like file transfers ought to be averaging 
  18. much more than one tenth of the modem's maximum speed, especially when I'm 
  19. using 19,200 compression (which my ISP supports).
  20.  
  21. If there's something I need to understand about it, I'd certainly appreciate 
  22. someone explaining it to me.
  23.  
  24. Kirk
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