Thanks Peter and to all who helped enlighten me. Would love to have a faster connection, but $$$ and Telstra silliness currently keep me at 56K.
>> >> Hi Alan, >> >> Just to add my 0.02 worth, >> >> Remember that a PSDN modem doesn't send and receive at the same time, >> >> All that download traffic has to have reply packets going back up >> the line saying send the next packet. >> >> So you will never get 56Kbit download speeds with tcp. >> >> 5.5Kbyte * 8 = 44Kbit, I'd be pretty happy with that. >> >> Also IIRC, 56K is one direction only, the packets going back are 33K. >> >> Which is why 64K ISDN is much better even though it only looks a tad >> faster. (though ISDN's old hat now) >> >> HTH >> >> Pete >> >> >> >> >> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
