On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:30 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 09:38, Arun K. Khan wrote: > > Beware of advertised speeds. The 256Kbps includes the bits of the > > link layer (ATM) over which the IP stack is initialized. This could > > be affected by the line quality and how far you are from the Tel. > > Exchg. At the ATM level I do get 256K/256K and file transfer rates of > > 25-27 KB/s. > > I know we never get the advertised speeds but one should expect 90-95% > of the advertised speeds i.e 230-240Kbps ( 28-30KBps ). This isn't > unrealistic.
The thumb rule for realistic expectation is: you are doing well if you get advertised speed - 13% (link layer and IP overhead, line quality etc.) which comes to around 222Kbps. Anything over it is gravy. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
