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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:03:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Point being?

was this part of the previous discussion on this?

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, hmmm wrote:

> 9600bps to ISP ~ 1000bytes/sec MAX ... MTU=1500
> 
> 5000b  = 00.01s @ 781.12k/s
> 10000b = 00.11s @ 090.62k/s

The problem with these is that the time sample (less than 1 sec) isn't
really enough to establish a good value.

> 25000b = 09.47s @ 002.58k/s
> 50000b = 35.47s @ 001.38k/s

You are not running at 9600bps. :)  Or modem data compression is helping
you more than you think.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major