Re: Upload speed to Web Mail vs. POP 3

From: FireFox (firefox11_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 02:44:19 -0400

     I believe in this case, the web mail has to deal with the internet at
large. When you connect to your POP server you only have 1 +/- hops and
usually a very good connection. Using web mail, you have to deal with
packet loss, and numerous hops over questionable connections. Just my 2c.

(-: FireFox :-)

"Bishoop" <none@none/net> wrote in message
news:uIar2f9NEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> WinXP Pro/SP1
>
> I understand that web mail uses port 80 and POP email uses port 110.
>
> I can upload an email with a 130KB attachment via my POP server in a few
> seconds. The same message/attachment to a web mail server (using the same
> Internet connection) takes over 4 minutes. I have tested this with two
> completely separate web mail servers (using the same Internet connection)
> and the slow results are the same.
>
> Actually I get the same 4+ minute upload speed on two entirely unrelated
> web
> mail servers. I have run the test several times and the upload to both
> web
> mail servers is equal within a few seconds.
>
> Can the ISP cap the upload speed of port 80 independent of port 110? If
> this
> is possible it might explain the tremendous difference in times.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>

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