OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?

Puke · #1 March 5th, 2004, 07:24 AM

i like Ruatha's second explaination. i'll submit that it could just be a crappy throughput estimation routine in the download software, or perhaps your modem is actually talking faster than the connection reports. the theoritical max is 56k, and software compression can probably help out older modems.

David E. Gervais · #2 March 5th, 2004, 01:07 PM

AT I can't tell if you're annoyed, perplexed or mad about this unexpected speed boost?

just be happy and hope that you get this higher transfer rate more often.

Cheers!

P.S. This is post #1977 for me, my but that was a wonderful year. It's the year Star Wars came out.

Arkcon · #3 March 6th, 2004, 02:45 AM

Back in the day when I used telephone modems to connect, I always got better than 28.8 (that was as fast as my modem was) -- IIRC, something around 32-35.

See, Delphi (or was it Sprintnet? so long ago) stopped adding a surcharge at 6pm, and I jumped on right away. Since only the east coast was on -- it was fast. By the time it was 6pm on the west coast, the network was so crowded it slowed to a crawl -- for everyone else.

Hmmm...maybe now that everyone is on broadband, dialup networks are becoming less congested. Hmmm...I recently unpluged my modem card and disabled XP's service, didn't think I ever need it again. But now I wonder ...

[ March 05, 2004, 12:46: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Baron Munchausen · #4 March 5th, 2004, 05:08 PM

I think Ruatha has guessed the right answer. If you had started the download and made some progress, then cancelled or been disconnected for some reason, it would count the already existing portion of the download in the speed calculation when you resumed.

Nice to see you use Mozilla!

Fyron · #5 March 5th, 2004, 08:17 PM

Keep in mind that modem connections are rated at 28.8 or 56 kilobits, not kilobytes. A bit is 1/8 of a byte.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #6 March 5th, 2004, 11:53 PM

I'm on dial up too and for the longest time I could never get more than 28.8 . Don't know where you are (no need to tell me) but since I've moved closer to a major street I now connect at 36k or 37.7k . I also agree with the theory that more people are off dial up now and that frees it up for those of us on steam powered computers and Beer Can / String connections!
I suggest you try to duplicate the conditions and see what happens.

Atrocities · #7 March 6th, 2004, 01:55 AM

I was sooooo tired when I made posted this Last night.