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Re: FTP modem speed
From:
Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:52:33 +1000
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Earl Truss wrote:

> At 10:58 PM 8/31/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >and get a speed check on my modem. It reported for a file size of 1,335,032
> >(1.33k) [ZIP compressed]
> >with a speed of "1.38Kbytes/sec". The modem is a "generic" Davicom
> >Voice/Data/Fax 33.6". Is this a
> >good speed reported or am I at least close to having optimum speed?
> >
> This sounds quite slow.

It also depende on where you download from.  From local server, it's very slow
for this modem.  but if you download from other locations than local server, the
situation is unknown and you can't tell it's slow or not.  I had number of times
that only got 4XX bit per sencond when downloading over the internet.

Jun

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