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- From: baron@alpha.netam.net (Baron Chandler)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 Connects and the Net
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 19:44:12 GMT
- Organization: NetAmerica, Bowling Green, KY.
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- ew (wuen@blarg.net) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Microsoft's server is often slow... That could be a lot of it. At 28.8 you
- can expect 3K per second transfers, ascii transfers are higher because they're
- more compressible in general than binary files.
-
- Baron.
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