Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:34:22 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Modem throughput appears to be unrealistically high. Message-ID: <000701bec558$c2b22000$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <19990702224105.A13236@dan.emsphone.com>
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Right, and I am aware of that. But as my original e-mail stated, I wasn't downloading any text, I was downloading some programs, and the enlightenment port. Now I had about 4/5 things all downloading at one time (all compressed binaries). The strang(er) part is when everything except the big download finished, it dropped down to about 6kb/sec, which is more realistic. Weird, huh? -Chris -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 11:41 PM To: Christopher J. Michaels Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Modem throughput appears to be unrealistically high. In the last episode (Jul 02), Christopher J. Michaels said: > I was poking around in ppp and typed show modem. I pasted the output > of that to the bottom of my message. > > Now maybe I've just been up to long and my brain is fried, but I > could swear that says I got 12.8KB/sec about 30 minutes ago, and that > I'm currently getting 10KB/sec. > > Am I loosing it? Is my connection THAT GOOD? or is there something > flawed in ppp? I am connected via a 56k modem, btw. If you're just using text-mode programs like telnet or lynx, you will definitely see speeds like this. Text compresses pretty good, and all modems faster than ~9600 baud have some kind of compression built in. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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