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March 5th, 2004, 05:40 AM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
really, really, really good connection? 
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March 5th, 2004, 05:46 AM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
Maybe it was a badly compressed zip and the download got more compressed by he download protocol, thereby increasing the speed above that of the connection, these things happens.
Or if you had started a download earlier and already had some of it in the Cache when you restarted, it mght count that wich already was on the harddrive as downlaoded in this session and thereby giving it a "false" high speed.
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March 5th, 2004, 07:24 AM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
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.
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March 5th, 2004, 01:07 PM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
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. 
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March 6th, 2004, 02:45 AM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
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 ...
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March 5th, 2004, 05:08 PM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
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.
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March 5th, 2004, 08:17 PM
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Re: OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?
Keep in mind that modem connections are rated at 28.8 or 56 kilobits, not kilobytes. A bit is 1/8 of a byte.
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