From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 6:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skygod.cns.ksu.edu (skygod.cns.ksu.edu [129.130.61.25]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F753E12 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 06:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ksu.edu ([129.130.61.24]) by skygod.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA88580; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:27:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Message-ID: <38A17FAF.32A89368@ksu.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:54:39 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schwenk Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: magical ftp xfer rates?? References: <38A179A9.D74FF5CB@ksu.edu> <38A17DC4.7198498D@math.udel.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Schwenk wrote: > 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. > jesus... i can't believe i didn't think of that. i'm gonna have to go meditate for awhile and consider if i should change careers :) thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message