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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 04:24:42 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <4hr16a$bci@nntp1.best.com>
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- n article <4hqq0e$eqn@sam.inforamp.net>, pcp@inforamp.net says...
- >
- >I use the USR 28.8 with the init string set by Win95, mdmusrsp.inf and no
- >other items. I get 28.8 (with v.34+, occasionally 31,200 )connects but
- >the transfer rates seem well below potential so I blame my ISP.
- >Transfering a text file from the local ftp site my transfer speed is no
- >better than 7100bytes p/s. With 4x compression on text files shouldn't
- >the rate be like * much * higher??
- >--
- >--
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- 4:1 compression with v.42bis is just propaganda.. its never that high
- with real world data.. expect 3:1 at the most, and possibly somewhere
- between 2-3:1 in the real world
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