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- From: "Albert P. Belle Isle" <belleisl@cerberus-sys.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.winsock,alt.winsock.trumpet,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is 2K(bytes) per second avg reasonable x-fer rate for 28,800 V34 modem?
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:20:34 -0500
- Organization: Cerberus Systems, Inc.
- Message-ID: <3135D252.638D@cerberus-sys.com>
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- Mark J. Restifo wrote:
- >
- >
- > I am curious - I have a generic 14.4 modem set for 57,600, Trumpet Winsock
- > ver 2.1f with a PPP connection {MTU 576, MSS 536, RWIN 2144} , and am using
- > the latest version of WS_FTP. I regularly appear to get download speeds as
- > high as 11-16Kbps. Does this sound a little high for a 14.4 modem? Is
- > WS_FTP correcly reflecting an accurate speed? I might mention that
- > sometimes the displayed speed drops to as low as "3kbps" .
- >
-
- Mark:
-
- I think you'll find that 11-16Kbps through a 14.4Kbps modem connection is
- about right for an uncompressible transfer. (Bits, not Bytes.) If you had
- your speed display set to KBytes/sec, you should see 1.6KBytes/sec for
- uncompressible files.
-
- With your settings you shouldn't be getting any IP fragmentation slow-down,
- so I assume your variations are due to particular server loading and/or
- Internet routing path congestion at various times. (No re-transmitting of
- packets damaged by com overruns down in your data link layer, I assume.)
-
- Adding a start- and a stop-bit to each 8-bit byte received over a 14.4Kbps
- V.42 (synchronous) modem-to-modem link, in order to send it (asynchronously)
- to you through your RS232 serial port, would result in a 19.2Kbps com port
- unloading rate for the 10-bits-per-byte stream. With your 57.6Kbps rate,
- your V.42bis compression can give you up to an almost-4-to-1 boost for
- highly compressible txt-files (as opposed to zip-, jpg- or gif-files).
-
- Regards,
-
- Al
-
-
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