home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.earthlink.net!usenet
- From: rest@earthlink.net (Ben Rest)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem gurus.....I could use some help !!
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:06:57 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4i66jp$6s0@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>
- References: <4hhjav$3du@shell.fore.com> <4hnm7s$jbk@dsm6.dsmnet.com> <3140b7b4.1272996@news.demon.co.uk> <4hr0p6$bci@nntp1.best.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: pool018.max5.santa-clara.ca.dynip.alter.net
- X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82
-
- Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
-
-
- >its a little bit over 28.8kb/s due to mnp4/v42 stripping out start and
- >stop bits out of the data connection. they [the modem advertisers] keep
- >advertising modems with outragous compression ratios, thats where you
- >get the 115kb/s, where the truth is almost everyone uses some kind of
- >zip/arj compression.. no one in the real world downloads plain ascii
- >text, and in order to reach the theroritical compression ratio you
- >hafto be downloading a really really huge text file with just the
- >letter A repeated over and over.. its never that high with real data
-
- There's a lot of real-world html. I've noticed quite an improvement browsing
- the internet with v.42bis with respect to ascii, but already compressed .gif
- and .jpg etc.; it's like shoving an ant colony thru the eye of a needle.
-
-
-