From kragen@dnaco.net Sat Sep 5 22:27:41 1998 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:27:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: Spencer Davis cc: "clug-user@clug.org" Subject: Re: benchmarking network preformance In-Reply-To: <35F1E845.6959BCF0@fuse.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 1678 Status: O X-Status: On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Spencer Davis wrote: > Hello, > About how fast should someone with a 56.6 modem be able to download an > ~1Meg file? Well, if you were really getting 57.6kbps, you would be able to download 5.76 kilobytes per second, so it should take about 178 seconds -- or three minutes, minus two seconds -- to download a 1024K file. I don't think that's legal in the US (53K is the max), and most of the time, people don't even get that -- more like 40-50 kbps, from what I've heard. But it should still be less than six minutes. And then there's protocol overhead, which is significant for IP (3% or so) and other stuff (do 56K modems actually transmit start and stop bits like 2400 baud modems did? If not, you'd get up to 7.2 kilobytes per second, cutting your theoretical minimum download time to 142 seconds, or 2 minutes, 22 seconds. Do they compress data? Well, maybe you could get even better rates.). The answer is: I don't know. I have a 14.4kbps modem. :) > Also, as far as ISP's go, are there any local ones that support Linux > expressly? I'm with FUSE and while it works fine, the tech support > people seem to blanch when I ask them questions... I am also interested in this question. Kragen -- Kragen Sitaker I don't do .INI, .BAT, .DLL or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. -- Fritz Anderson