From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 06:58:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05106 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 06:58:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from calvino.alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05095 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 06:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hmmm.alaska.net (hmmm.alaska.net [206.149.69.94]) by calvino.alaska.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA08412; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 05:58:01 -0900 (AKST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:57:16 +0000 () From: hmmm To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ftp rates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > Point being? > was this part of the previous discussion on this? yes. i noted my rates were pretty far off, and "gpalmer" asked me to try different files sizes, larger ones than my original post. and keep in mind, that my ACTUAL transfer rates (pure byte rates without regard to retransmissions) are about 250 bytes/second, far below 9600 bps. > > 9600bps to ISP ~ 1000 bytes/sec MAX ... MTU=1500 > > > > 5000b = 00.01s @ 781.12k/s > > 10000b = 00.11s @ 090.62k/s ^^^^^ > The problem with these is that the time sample (less than 1 sec) isn't > really enough to establish a good value. ^^^^^ actually, it took a 20 - 45 seconds for the small transfers! > > 25000b = 09.47s @ 002.58k/s > > 50000b = 35.47s @ 001.38k/s ^^^^^ > You are not running at 9600bps. :) Or modem data compression is helping > you more than you think. ^^^^^ NO, i have no compression whatsoever (other than PPP header), and i have all baud rates set at 9600, ie, NOT 19200, etc. i'm just trying to be helpful - i'm not trying to "cut anything down".