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Re: Modem Speeds NT 3.51 vs WfW

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From: Roger J.Hamlett
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article: <857338923snz129.os2.7@corixia.demon.co.uk>  
news@corixia.demon.co.uk (Richard Ashton) writes:
> 
> In article <285421586wnr@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
>            Roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk "Roger J.Hamlett" writes:
> 
> } Just an obvious thought, is NT talking to the modem at 57600bps?. 
This
> } would saturate at allmost exactly your current speed. NT can go 
faster,
> } I have seen over 7.5k quite regularily, but recently, in an attempt to
> } reduce the 'bottleneck' in news, the modem feed has been 
'bandwidth
> } limited' from the news server, though why such a limit should affect
> } your transfer I don't know.
> 
> It has ?
> 
> Shit missed another "announcement" could you provide a pointer 
please.
It was in a message posted in 'demon announce', but Malcolm Muir (I 
think), at the end of the 'news debacle', where the various 'fixes' for the 
news backlog were described. One of these was that there was going 
to be a reduction in the maximum bandwidth for individual modems 
from the news server. It must have been about three weeks ago now. 

Good Luck

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From: "Roger J.Hamlett" <Roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Modem Speeds NT 3.51 vs WfW
Date: 1997/03/03
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