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Re: Modem Speeds NT 3.51 vs WfW

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From: John Chapple
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <879171735wnr@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>, "Roger J.Hamlett"
<Roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk> writes
>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. 
I thought I read somewhere that things were now supposed to be back to
normal as regards bandwidth reduction?
To get back on subject *with* nt3.51 does anyone see *any* *incoming*
compression. That always stays at 0 with me? (its supposed to be
switched on)

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From: John Chapple <jc@ch-w.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Modem Speeds NT 3.51 vs WfW
Date: 1997/03/03
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