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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:59:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetch -p
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810021356250.20490-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199810020343.VAA13800@mt.sri.com>

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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


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