Slow modem speed

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Hi,

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:16:53PM +0530, Dr. S.K. Singh wrote:
> > > 	The problem is that the FTP speed was below 3 KBPS and I had to
> > 
> > 3 K*bit* or 3 K*byte* per sec.?   3 Kbyte per sec. would be pretty normal
> > for a 33600 connection (which may have done a fallback to 31200 or so).
> 
> Hi Girt,
> 
> 	I think it was below 3 kbps. 

Hmmm, this still didn't answer my question what you mean by "kbps" - are
you talking about *bits* or *bytes*?

> I was expecting about 20-30 kbps
> download speed from two Linux box 100 meters part. Since I never used
> modem before this ( i am on VSAT), I felt it very slow. A 6 mb netscape
> Navigator file took around 2.30 hours.

This would be unusually slow, indeed.

Let's calculate:  33600 bits/sec are 3360 bytes/sec. (10 bits per byte),
that's 3.3 Kbyte/sec. - 6 Mb are 6000 Kbyte, so it should take roughly
2000 seconds, half an hour, not 2.5...

In any case, it's not a mgetty problem, but more of a "my modem doesn't
like your modem" issue.

gert

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