Re: slow downloads

From: Tony Talmage (fakeaddress_at_nodomain.com)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:17:46 -0600

Technically, you shouldn't be able to get speeds higher than 6KB/s or so on
a dialup, so it seems to me that 4KB/s is within normal operating speeds.

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Tony Talmage
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Graphic Education Corporation
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"Craig Leffel" <cleffel@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:eMDac.9134$Dv2.1521@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> my modem speed is 56k. my connection speed is 46.6.  when I'm downloading
> files, the transfer rate is down about 4 kb/sec. according to my
performance
> monitor, memory usage was about 1% of capacity, disk at .5% and cpu about
> 5%.  the last place I was downloading from was Sun Microsystems
(downloading
> the Java tutorial 12.4 mb).  (I'm sure they can handle any traffic I can
> send their way.)  can I speed up the transfer rate by tweaking the packet
> size?  Any other suggestions (besides getting rid of earthlink)?
>
>


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