On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Jim Arnott wrote:
Beige G-3 DT. High speed here in eastern Oregon is getting 46k on your dial-up connection.
Remember... the topic was slow DIAL-UP data transfer in X. If you're moving data at 256k you probably won't notice. When you're moving data at 26k, you will. There's a BIG different between 46k and 26k.
I've followed this thread with some interest as we have a lot of similarities here. I'm deep in the heart of darkest California. No broadband options (other than satellite which sucks in the winter) and exclusively a dial up. Granted we have a good quality connection and we are close to the local phone office. Dial up speeds will typically run 49-52k. On the same computer, with the same modem, phone lines, etc., there just isn't any apparent reason for a discrepancy of that size? It got me curious.
We have several Macs and I did not remember any deterioration of speed between 9 and X. (Now OS X 10.0 and 10.1 are another story) I have three Mac's here that are capable of running OS 9. A Dual 867 G4 MDD, with 1.5 G RAM, a Summer 2000 iMac 350 G3 with 1G RAM and a 400 G4 TiBook with 512K RAM. All have 10.2.6 as the everyday operating system, and 9.2.2 for use as Classic and OS ( boot.
I run Safari 1.0 as the browser on all with OS X and Netscape Communicator 4.78 in OS 9 I went through the lot and cleared all caches, histories, cookies, etc. and proceeded to download some favorite web sites and time them. Timing was simply a Radio Shack stop watch, no more consistent than my ability to "click" it on and off. No scientific testing was done.
Across the board, there was no significant difference in 9.2.2 versus 10.2.6, Safari under Jaguar was faster at rendering certain pages, but the download speeds were comparable.
JM2�W. What does it mean? I have no idea. Nothing scientific. No animals were injured conducting these tests. :-)
As the Mad Hatter said: "Curioser and curioser"
Jack Russell
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