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- From: ew <wuen@blarg.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 Connects and the Net
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 07:29:04 GMT
- Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/441-9109
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- garyn@sun.tir.com (Gary Newberry) wrote:
- >Hello,
- >I have a Zoom 28.8 Internal modem and it connects to my ISP usually at
- >
- >26.7 with an occasional 28.8 connect, however the transfer rates over
- >the net are quite a bit slower than this. At 26.7 I would expect to
- >see about 2.7 - 3.0 KBS transfer rate however, when using Netscape and
- >downloading a large file say from MS in Washington, my transfer rate
- >dropped to .3 KBS ( this was Sat. in the afternoon) At about 1 am
- >Mich. time I retried the transfer and succesfully got the file but the
- >transfer rate was still only about 1 KBS. (26.7 connect speed to the
- >ISP )
- >
- >Does it appear as though something is not correctly set up in my modem
- >? , or is it (as I suspect) just an example of "Net Gridlock" if so
- >then there is a LOT of wasted bandwidth worrying about 28.8 connect
- >speeds to ones ISP when the transfer rates from the source to ones ISP
- >appear to be nowhere near a 28.8 connect speed.
- >
- >Any input on this would be greatly appreciated 8-)
- >
- >TIA
- >
- >Gary WB8POK
-
- At 24000 bps, my Spry Mosaic modem monitor shows a throughput of
- 3000 bytes per second. Occassionally, it goes up to 6500 bytes per
- second.
-
- Talk to your ISP. Something is definitely wrong.
-
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