| From: | Gavin Kinsey |
| Date: | 8 May 2000 at 11:42:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Download speeds |
I received a message from Conor Kerr, a reply follows,
>
> 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!
Its the init string of the modems and their defaults that is causing this.
Some modems are set to report the connect rate others the DTR by default,
but you can tell it to report whichever you want in the init string. Check
the manual for the right option.
Oh, and are you sure the zip archive was actually compressed as you can set
it to only store files i.e. "zip -0 archive.zip filelist". That would
explain the very high rate on an apparantly compressed file.
Gavin Kinsey
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