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- From: bigrex@primenet.com (Bob Nixon)
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- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 07:48:00 -0700
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- Try the bible at Alex books on the WWW it's 2.7megs and gets about 2.5-3.0
- compression ratio. Lots of Word formatted files can easily do 4:1 and some
- text files I've found do up to 9500cps. I guess it just depends on the
- content or the amount of redundency within the files. Sorry to butt in on
- your thread.
-
-
- In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960315115620.14771A-100000@access2.digex.net>,
- fairbank@access2.digex.net says...
- >
- >On 14 Mar 1996, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
- >
- >> : > 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.
- >> : >
- >>
- >> Yes, 28.8/28.8 is my actual connect speed (until I upgrade my MultiTech
- >> pools to 33.6 starting next week (: then it gets better). I normally
- use
- >> files such as text modem manuals since they are large enough to give a
- >> good reading. I like the Supra manual as a test file, but I've used
- >> others.
- >> My test file is a 2Meg bmp that I made. Just one big white box on a
- >> white background.
- >
- > Well, you still didn't give me a specific site or file name. The
- >largest text file I could find at Supra's ftp site was ref_man.txt at
- >153k It came in at just under 7k/sec. I tried this on three different
- >modems at two different isp's. All about the same. This is about a 2:1
- >compression ratio. That seems to be the norm for any text file I have
- >ever downloaded, as well as the text portion of Web pages. I just find it
- >hard to believe that you *regularly* get 10k/sec. Also your test file is
- >highly compressable and is no comparison for what you would get when
- >downloading text files.
- >
- >Eric
- >
- > ,,,
- >Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive. (o o)
- >------------------------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------
- ---
- >fairbank@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~fairbank/
- >
- >
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