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- From: jeremiah@ios.com (Jeremiah Kristal)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:47:32 GMT
- Organization: IDT Internet Services
- Message-ID: <4i4rhk$672@news.ios.com>
- References: <4hqq0e$eqn@sam.inforamp.net> <4hr16a$bci@nntp1.best.com>
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- Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
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- >n article <4hqq0e$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??
- >>--
- >>--
-
- >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
-
- I regularly get 10k/sec when downloading text files, from both a BBS
- and ftp'ing over a PPP link. These are general text files, generally
- modem manuals and the like. It may not be 4:1 but it's pretty damn
- close and I have averaged over 11k/sec on test files.
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- Jeremiah
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