| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 7 May 2000 at 18:21:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Download speeds |
hi,
> I regularly get 9.2K a second download speeds.... from a 56K modem!
if its text, then text gets compressed by the mode as it is passed through -
therefore you get a higher than binary-rate for that file.
download a 2Mb lha archive or JPG (something that is highly compressed with
algorithmic software already) and you'll see the 'sane' speed of
approx. 5.2K/s
> 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. :)
115,000 is your DTR rate - the speed between the computer and the modem.
this should be set to at least twice the speed of the modem - it allows, as
you've noticed, more data to be squeezed through if the data can be
compressed (in the golden olden days, you'd set the rate to 3 times the
modem speed)
alan
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