Re: Linux and internet access speeds

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From: John Saunders
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00

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Dave Fitch <davidf@syd.csa.com.au> wrote:
> Last Wednesday evening (~6pm) I ftp'ed several files from ANU's
> sunsite mirror (as announced here a couple of days ago, thanks!).
> I was fairly consistently getting 3.2 Kbytes/sec as reported by
> ftp when it finished getting each file.  What sort of rates do
> other people get??

That's about the best you will get with a 28.8K modem link. The theoretical
maximum is 28800/8 = 3600 = 3.5K but there is TCP/IP overhead in each packet
to the tune of 40 bytes. Also PPP adds a few bytes to the packet. You might
be able to squeeze a tad more speed by upping the mtu and mru (assuming it's
set less than 1500 at the moment) but don't expect miracles.

Cheers.
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