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- From: eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 10K/sec..4K..3K..1.2K..0.3K Why???
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 23:31:44 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-1002962331440001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- References: <31180B57.3779@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>
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- 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.
-