How Is This Possible? Or is a modem overclockable?
Ok,
this is really really odd...
I was using a standart Rockwell chipset 33.6K Modem while surfing the net, I have downloaded a few files, all were downloaded in ~~ 3K/Sec ~~ then I went to an small ftp in my country and downloaded a 10Mb Mov Movie, now what shocked me was that I was downloading in 7.6K/sec!!! ( I was using Getright), now I know not all programs make an acuurate reading of your conneting speed, but the after a fre caculations about the time it took the file to downlaod, I came with this:
Download speed was at 7.4K/Sec.
now could someone tell me how is it possible?
Thanks!
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DataOrb 1999
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Windows 2000 Workstation With Running Specs:
Asus P3B-F w/Celeron @ 680Mhz 192Mb 7ns PC100 Ram. Matrox G400 @142/190Mhz IBM Deskstar 75GXP 'Telesto' 34Gb UDMA100 7200RPM. Seagate U8 4.1gb Hdd,
SBlaster Live! Digital. 17" Mag InnoVision 770Ti TrinitronFR Monitor. @1152X864 15" PB Monitor Connected to 2nd. port. @800X600 Logitech MouseMan Wheel USB (on Everglide Giganta) and Focus 127keys MM Keyboard. HP SCSI Cd-Rw 7200Si AOpen X48 Cd-Rom Drive.
AOpen 1040 X10 Slot-Feed DVD Drive. Kingston 30BT Network Interface Card. Pine Group ESS Chipset 56Kb Modem. 3Com Palm IIIx + GoType + AxxPAC.
Well, the movie file you downloaded might not be so very well compressed. Your modem has compression routines and it'll be able to download uncompressed data faster than compressed.
This is why when you download a big TXT file, you could get over 10 KByte/sec while a .ZIP file will probably be max 3.5 KByte/sec.
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