From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 6:26:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skygod.cns.ksu.edu (skygod.cns.ksu.edu [129.130.61.25]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00373DC9 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 06:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ksu.edu ([129.130.61.24]) by skygod.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA88510 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:01:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Message-ID: <38A179A9.D74FF5CB@ksu.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:28:57 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: magical ftp xfer rates?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From home, I dial into my freebsd server at work for internet access. Both computers have a USRobotics 56K internal fax/modem installed. The setup works great and I've never had a single problem. I'm aware of the issues of 56K speed on the downstream only, etc, etc yet am very pleased with my solid/steady 33.6 connection. However, this morning, I dialed into my freebsd server like normal, and proceeded to upload a file through ftp to another workstation in my office. here's what i got --> --snip-- ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> mput cdslogo4.bmp mput cdslogo4.bmp? y 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for cdslogo4.bmp. 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 1378854 bytes sent in 248.60Seconds 5.55Kbytes/sec. ftp> --snip-- My box at home runs Windows95 ( hey, my wife has to use it too :) ) and I periodically monitor the connection speed to make sure there's no problems... its always a steady average at ~3.8KBytes/sec However, the above "snippet" shows that the transfer rate was 5.55Kbytes/sec. By my calculations.. the FASTEST this xfer could have happened would be in 328.30 seconds (5 minutes, 28 seconds) at 33.6kbps However, this xfer occurred a full 24% FASTER than my theoritical maximum. QUESTION--> How did this xfer complete in LESS time than the maximum of 33.6Kbps imposed by the fact that i'm connecting thru 2 analog 56K modems?? or is my understanding of the issue way skewed ??? TIA!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message