From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 6:47: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3297B3E6C for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 06:46:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA15377; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:46:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38A17DC4.7198498D@math.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 09:46:28 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nathan Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: magical ftp xfer rates?? References: <38A179A9.D74FF5CB@ksu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chalk it up to the wonders of data compression. Most modems have compression schemes built into them. I would imagine that whatever you were downloading compressed well. nathan wrote: > > QUESTION--> How did this xfer complete in LESS time than the maximum of > 33.6Kbps imposed by the fact that i'm connecting thru 2 analog 56K > modems?? > -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message