Rick Collins said the following to John Weemhoff on the subject of
Re: USR 33.6k & 56k upgra (07 Aug 97  18:03:31)
 RC> Connect to a system and upload the text version, and time how long it
 RC> takes (use a stopwatch, not the system).  Then upload the zipped file
 RC> and time that.  Repeat the process with your modem's data compression
 RC> disabled.  Compare the times.
 RC> You can do the same thing using downloads instead of uploads, but it
 RC> may be difficult to find a decent size pure text file. Rick
You could use a file consisting of random bytes. Such a file will not
compress at all when Zipped. Time the original and the Zip for an idea
of the compression overhead in the modem.
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