Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:43:58 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch -p Message-ID: <199810020343.VAA13800@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810021256330.20490-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199810011721.LAA10552@mt.sri.com> <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810021256330.20490-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > > 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
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