- From: Mary Morris <marym@Finesse.COM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:06:12 -0800
- To: touch@isi.edu, mogul@pa.dec.com
- Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, www-speed@tipper.oit.unc.edu
> From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com> > Actually, there are two major contributors to delay for the > "average" user - > - bandwith to the server > this has less to do with the modem speed, and more to > do with shared access to an often limited and highly > contended resource i.e., even over a 14.4k modem, we > often see 4-6 kbps transfer rates Umm 4-6K is a VERY good rate here. Remember 14.4K means 14,400 baud not bytes. Thus an "average" transfer should really be 1800 bytes per second. Good compression brings it up to the 4-6K range. My real experiences are that an average 14.4k modem actually sees an average throughput of about 1Kbytes - 1.3 Kbytes per second. Mary Morris
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