| From: | Kyle Kinsey |
| Date: | 6 May 2000 at 20:38:18 |
| Subject: | Re: Download speeds |
>I recently got a new PCMIA modem with Ethernet built-in. It's a great wee
>thing (unlike the Pace modem it has replaced, what a waste of money that
>was, from the worst modem manufacturer on earth) but has suprised me a
>little when downloading...
>
>I regularly get 9.2K a second download speeds.... from a 56K modem!
If the data compress's well this is perfectly viable.
>I thought it was just the speed being reported wrongly but I've seen that
>kind of rate retained since for 3 minutes and more! That's a 2MB file
>downloading in 4 minutes!
>
>How can that be possible? I have a cable phone line, is the reason for the
>56K limit that BT lines are just too crap, noisy and weak? I connect at
>115,000 by the way. :)
Yes your cable phone will help a lot, bt lines suck ass!!! I've had em out to change
the line twice in the past 2 months ;-) Seems ok at the moment, for how long,
who knows. It degrades, it crackles it crosses, I give it a month before I'm back to
thinking 9,600bps is a good connection. (when it was bad I got a 3,000 bps conection
once!!!!)
And sorry to break the bad news but you don't connect at 115200, that's just the speed
the computer talks to the modem at. On a 56k modem 56k is the best you'll get, and
you'll have to have a great line (ie cable) to do that!! Me I get 48k and am happy!
115200 is possible with 2 modems / phone lines and the right software!!!!
I used to get connection reported as 115200, but that was cause I used generic drivers
and not drivers for my modem. (and I'm talking windows here)
I want a megabit connection NOW!!!!!!
Oh well Just have to wait till I go to work monday I spose ;-)
Kyle.
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