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Woodrow Sawyer <WoodrowS@birdsong.sbay.com> writes:

> 
> I got 416Kbs SDSL from Concentric.net.
> The wire is from Northpoint.
> 
> Measured ftp data rates are consistently above 40KBytes/sec. That's
> substantially better (!) than the quoted 28.8k above. I suggest that
> the problem is most likely with the sender. ... Given that there was
> reference to smut sites, I'm not really surprised.
> 

I downloaded three files from ftp.free86.org Friday or so, using Fetch on
my Mac, and a cable modem. Fetch told me the download rate on the files ran
around 58KBytes/sec. Total of the file sizes was 42 megs; I didn't time the
download, but all three files were on my hard drive in between 12 and 15
minutes total. As usual, there were a few times when nothing was coming
over -- the usual Internet pauses. But that download time is a heck of a 
lot faster than using a 28.8k modem. (Can you imagine even trying to
download 42 megs of files on a phone line with a modem?)

I also have to say that even on the Web, browsing is faster on cable when
downloading images, hidden javascripts, animated GIFs, and Java applets
than it is on my 33.6k modem. Mileages vary, of course, and there is much
more to browsing speeds than connection speeds; but I'll take my cable over
my phone line for browsing any day.

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