Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net> Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920234845.201B-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970920100834.15878B-100000@bmccane.uit.net>
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Always test bandwidth by transferring some .zip or .gz files of 500k or more via ftp -- that is the only really consistent test I know of. Because in general compression is really worthless, except with web page text. On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > > > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > Now if ISDN cards were sold in volumes and priced reasonably (i.e. > > > as much as an NE2000, since they are actually simpler!) and accessed > > > through a dedicated device driver, then things would certainly be > > > different. > > > > > > > well, ISDN cards aren't as cheap as the NE2000 clones, I have to admit > > that. But then again, the volume is a lot smaller. I can get a Teles > > clone here in Germany for about 140 DM, which is ~$75. > > > > And, with bisdn, the cards _are_ accessed using a dedicated driver. > > I can get (depending on the quality of the connection) the maximum > > throughput of ~8kB/sec (well, actually ~7.5kB/s with overhead). > > > > --- > > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > > (home) garyj@muc.de > > (play) gj@freebsd.org > > Only 7.5kB/sec? I am now very confused. I get 6kB/s throughput from my > 33.6 most of the time. Of course I am usually transferring news/mail so they > are highly compressible. Do any of the plug-in cards do LZ compression, > or anything similar? > > brian > > +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ > He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane > he represents the last great schizm \ McCane Consulting > among the gods. Evil though he obviously \ root@bmccane.uit.net > is, he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.uit.net/ > my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~pictures/ > of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bmccane/ > Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light" \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bbs/ > +---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ > >
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