Some reason a message by me on this topic has bounced. No matter. I have a practical thing to say:
I notice there is a lot of talk about various rather high numbers for modem speeds on 56K. As I understand it, many of these figures reported as connection speed are to do with the rate at which signals go from the modem to the computer and other things. As a practical matter, what needs to be watched is the rate at which material gets downloaded from the internet. If you don't get on average of about 3.5K per sec coming down (that is a MB loading in about 7 or 8 min) then you should worry duly. You should reasonably often, but not necessarily ordinarily, enjoy a MB in 3 or 4 minutes too. If you look at the bottom bar of some browsers (eg. IE), it reports this very figure in a form something like this: "receiving image (x bytes of y bytes, z bytes/sec): suchandsuch.gif" x is what has come down already, y is what is total on offer and z ,of course, is the rate you are getting (which you can confirm with a stop watch if you want) Now, in a modern city, it is rare for anyone to get much more than 5K/sec and certainly not for long. Sometimes it shoots up to 6 or 7 to surprise one! FTP download is often higher (but again, not for long up there at 9 or 11/sec). All the stuff about clean lines is correct, but when all is done, the lines clean, the modem sparkling new, the computer is a G99999, the download is very severely limited to these figures and can often creep into the low hundreds of bytes and lower (like OK/sec!) at busy times. If you can get 3K/sec fairly consistently, do not worry about anything you can do to improve things (besides getting the hell off 56K) David Elmo -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
