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- From: w.c.may@m.cc.utah.edu (wcm10a50)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: New Sportster.....poor performance
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:39:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah
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- >>I just got a new USR Sportster 33.6 and I'm having problems downloading
- >>large files. It starts out well but after a short time the data transfer
- >>rate starts to drop. I know this is fairly normal but the disturbing
- >>thing is that there are frequent and long pauses, sometimes minutes, when
- >>there is no data transfer at all. After the pause the modem once again
- >>resumes its download. >
- >>I have similar problem with my new external 28.8 USR Sportster under Win95. The
- >transfer rate decreased graduatly. I got 0.1k/s most of the time due to long
- >pauses. Sometimes the connecction droped. I am using the default initializaton.
- >The performance is worse than my old 14.4k modem. I don't know why.
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- I have had the same problems with my Courier V.everything but I have
- found out it just happens to depend on the servers you are downloading
- from,, sometimes I get dropped and other times I get 3300/sec.. just
- depends on how busy they are and what he phone lines are doing,, I get
- the best rates at 1 to 4 am (I know that is bad but you are competing
- against the US and the everyone else in the world for server time,
- especially with popular DL sites like Microsoft etc.
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- In His Name...
- No Flame. no spam, just plain bread... :)
- William C. May
- w.c.may@m.cc.utah.edu
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