From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 20:41:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116811501E for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA13342; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:41:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:41:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Christopher J. Michaels" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Modem throughput appears to be unrealistically high. Message-ID: <19990702224105.A13236@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000001bec4f5$0fc73e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <000001bec4f5$0fc73e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org>; from "Christopher J. Michaels" on Fri Jul 2 21:40:42 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 02), Christopher J. Michaels said: > I was poking around in ppp and typed show modem. I pasted the output > of that to the bottom of my message. > > Now maybe I've just been up to long and my brain is fried, but I > could swear that says I got 12.8KB/sec about 30 minutes ago, and that > I'm currently getting 10KB/sec. > > Am I loosing it? Is my connection THAT GOOD? or is there something > flawed in ppp? I am connected via a 56k modem, btw. If you're just using text-mode programs like telnet or lynx, you will definitely see speeds like this. Text compresses pretty good, and all modems faster than ~9600 baud have some kind of compression built in. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message