From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 20:44:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21373 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21367 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06454; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:43:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA13800; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:43:58 -0600 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:43:58 -0600 Message-Id: <199810020343.VAA13800@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch -p In-Reply-To: References: <199810011721.LAA10552@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Incidentally (and unrelatedly), the most recent download (which eventually > > > became truncated) fairly stormed down my modem - I averaged 1.63k/s on my > > > 14.4k modem for the transfer of MesaLib-3.0.tar.gz, which gzip -9 was only > > > able to shrink by .9%. > > > > Do you have compression turned on your modem? If so, pre-compressed > > files wreak havoc on modem compression and in many cases *slow* things > > down. > > > > In other words, 1.6K/sec is pretty good on pre-compressed data for a > > 14.4K modem. (But, I maybe mis-understanding in that you think this is > > actually better than expected, rather than worse than expected.) > > Yes, this was actually my point; on a 14.4k modem without compression > I should be getting about 1.4k/s throughput. And this number comes from? 14.4kbits/sec ~= 1.8K sec, not 1.4K. 14.4 k (serial) bits 8 data bits 1 byte 1K --------- * ----------- * ------ * ----- sec 10 (serial) bits 8 data bits 1024 bytes == 1.7578 K/sec Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message