From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 21:30:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26385 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26369 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from mercury (mercury [129.127.36.44]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id NAA18607; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:59:46 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by mercury; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/27Nov97-0404PM) id AA23958; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:59:45 +0930 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:59:44 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Nate Williams Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch -p In-Reply-To: <199810020343.VAA13800@mt.sri.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. A 14.4k modem transmits at 14400bps, no (i.e. it's a metric 'k', not a binary 'k')? That's 1440 bytes/sec, or just over 1.4k/sec Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message