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- From: jeremiah@ios.com (Jeremiah Kristal)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: download time question
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 18:07:52 GMT
- Organization: IDT Internet Services
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- phaedra@world.std.com (Phaedra A Hise) wrote:
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- >Hi, I'm trying to write about download times for a very low-tech
- >audience. So low tech, in fact, that I can't go into detail about file
- >sizes and traffic at servers and stuff like that. What I want to try to
- >explain is the difference between a 28.8 modem and a 56K, T1, and T3
- >line. Can someone tell me ROUGHLY what the download time would be for
- >each of those for a 30-page Web site with graphics (say 2 megs), all
- >other things being equal? I would really appreciate any help you can
- >offer, thanks.
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- OK, 28.8 will download it in about 12 minutes, 56k in about 6 minutes,
- T1 in about 12-15 seconds and T3 in about 1/2 second. That is
- assuming that everything is working perfectly and that you are
- connected directly to the server that you are downloading from, and
- that the server isn't overloaded, and ......
- But it should be close enough for your purposes.
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- Jeremiah
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