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"Doppleganger" <deathkeeper@usa.net_or_hotmail.com> wrote:

>You know i have seen this so much it is funny, don't believe the hype,
>software upgrading does not make a difference worthy of true harware for a
>couple of reasons, this is just an advertising ploy to get people to buy
>(it is the buy now upgrade free later that everyone will want to buy our
>product belief people have ploy). Belive me I have a 33.6 Kbps modem and my
>ISP has a 28.8 Kbps which I depending on the time of day and number of
>users get a 57.6 Kbps connection due to compression, my friend who has the
>same modem gets a connection of 115.2 Kbps since his ISP uses 33.6 Kbps
>modems entirely, 

No, those are the serial port speeds, not the modem connection speeds.

>they are new around here but long distance, but my ISP is
>going to get all 33.6 Kbps modems, also even a good modem doesn't mean
>squat, cause generally the only time you actually get the full effect of
>the connection i on E-Mail transit and New Group transit since the servers
>already have it there to pull from them, but over the internet makes very
>little difference in any case since it matter at what bandwidth your ISP is
>pulling and transmitting and what kind of connections are thru the enitre
>line of access, ex. a 57.6 Kbps connection to ISP, a T3 connection to the
>internet hub, all the routing done thru the hub (each connection you must
>navigate), and aT1 connection o the other server with a lower bandwidth may
>end up with an actual 14.4 Kbps through-put. So it makes no difference at
>all, ...

While that is true in some cases, it is not true of the internet in
general.  Running FTP from a well-connected ISP I often see transfers from
remote sites in the 20,000-30,000 bytes/second range (or more).


>... and for those with Win95 there is a way you can trace the route and
>the number of connections without any other program.
> 1 Goto Start on the toolbar and click Run.
> 2 type command and press enter (this will give you a DOS box)
> 3 type tracert (short for trace route) and space then type address such as
>    http://www.zdnet.com and press enter.
>
>From this you will get a full report on the time it took to access

Those are round-trip response times that do not relate directly to
throughput.

>and the
>number of connections made. If an * appears the info was lost in transit,
>on the above address I got 12 total connections.

Those are hops, not connections.

p.s.  Please help stop the massive inappropriate cross-posting of this
thread.

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Best regards,
John  mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
      28800 Modem FAQ:  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem/faq.html