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In article <19950719.204511.94@arise.demon.co.uk>,
          steven@arise.demon.co.uk (Steven Haslam) wrote:

> In message <19950718.231742.57@morpheus.demon.co.uk> Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> > The only reson I ask, is that I've seen figures in the 2400 cps range
> > quoted round here occasionally. Is this just down to better hardware,
> > or can I do things I've not noticed to improve my speeds?

The other day, for the first time ever, I got a news fetch speed
of over 2400 cps.  I was amazed, I can tell you :)  However I was,
at the time, the only person using anubis.demon (Cambridge PoP),
so I guess that helped :)

> I've never had particularly good transfer speeds with FreeNet. The
> modem seems to spend quite a lot of time sitting there doing nothing,
> annoyingly :}
>
> [snip]
> 
> KA9Q seems to give better transfer rates in general is what I have found.

I'm not sure what it is (maybe it's just me), but I still say that KA9Q
is *way* faster when it comes to telnet sessions.  Maybe FreeTerm is
awful.. but then its supposed to be using the same terminal library code
that KA9Q uses.  Everyone else I've asked seems to think that it is
all fast and wonderful - but then they're comparing it to !VT220...

Am I the only one to see this?  is it FreeTerm's fault, or is it
that Freenet itself is slow, compared to KA9Q ??

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