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Date:      	Sun, 25 Jun 1995 13:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        dennis <dennis@et.htp.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as a router
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950625130157.3531G-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506251650.MAA26983@mail.htp.com>

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On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, dennis wrote:

> internet provider make sure that your provider has high-speed connectivity,
> because a 56k line to a router with a 56k connection only yields 28k to the
> "real" net.

  Not true.  I temporarily extended a 56k line once through two load 
balanced 28.8k dial lines.  FTP transfers of gzip'ped binaries was always 
around 5K/s.  

Tom



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