| From: | Conor Kerr |
| Date: | 7 May 2000 at 20:10:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Download speeds |
Hi,
> > I regularly get 9.2K a second download speeds.... from a 56K modem!
> 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
No, the whole point of my post was that this rate was for .zip files!
That's why I was flumaxed! :)
> 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)
The old modem would connect at various different rates, reported as anything
from 33600 to 48000. This one ALWAYS has a reported rate of 115000.
Now while I thought that that must surely be the DTR rate, I don't think it
is as the software being used hasn't changed, just the modem and connection
rates have. The question I keep asking myself is why would the software use
to report the actual connect speed and now report the DTR speed instead?
Somehow I don't think the software has actually changed what it is reporting
and that that isn't what is happening! Again, hence my quizical post!
All the best...
Conor
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