Re: Modem speed/Data transfer rates

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From: Simon Slavin
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <19961203001228269242@chadales.demon.co.uk>,
david@chadales.demon.co.uk (Dave Howard) wrote:

> I know that 14.4 is slow, and I'm considering upgrading, *but*,
> is it worth upgrading when a lot of the speeds that I see as I access
> web sites and FTP sites are well below 1k/s, sometimes 800/sec, even
> 300, 50, and 0!

Not strictly-speaking a Macintosh question.

Check the 'receive' light on your modem while you're downloading
something.  If it's on all the time, then your modem is the
bottle-neck and getting a faster modem would speed-up your download.

Simon.
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From: slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk (Simon Slavin)
Subject: Re: Modem speed/Data transfer rates
Date: 1996/12/04
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