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- On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Ian Leigh wrote:
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- > Just a quick one about the modem speed displays that appear such as
- > system monitor for Win95 or on an FTP program. When downloading I
- > quite often get a speed of 3.1 kbs even though my modem is only a 2.8
- > kbs model. Is there a reason for this?? Since it is normally zipped
- > files that are downloaded I don't see that any data compression from
- > the modem would be used to increase the amount of data coming in.
- >
- No such thing as a 2.8kbs modem. You have a 28.8kbs and 3.1kbs is a
- typical transfer speed.
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