Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:41:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modem throughput appears to be unrealistically high. Message-ID: <19990702224105.A13236@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bec4f5$0fc73e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org>; from "Christopher J. Michaels" on Fri Jul 2 21:40:42 GMT 1999 References: <000001bec4f5$0fc73e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org>
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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
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