On Aug 07 20:27, 1997, Ettore Casagrande of 1:246/15 wrote:
RC>>  You might consider how it is possible for your 14.4 kbps modem to
RC>>  upload at a faster speed than 14.4, no matter what is on the other
RC>>  end of the line.
EC> It can be done, and it is not data compression.  Do you know of anybody 
EC> that has a 14400 that downloads every once in a while at amazing speeds?  
I 
EC> am sure you do because I do and very few of my friends have 14400's.  It 
is 
EC> not data compression, it is some form of glitch.  By the way, the lines 
EC> that go to my house are no longer copper, they are fiber optics
You are seeing nonsense from your comm program, or you are downloading 
uncompressed files.  Note that _all_ zipped files are not necessarily 
_compressed_ files.  They can be full-size, and will therefore be compressed 
by the modem.  Fibre and copper matters not at all.
RC>>  The answer, of course, is data compression.  The rest of the answer
RC>>  is the fact that your comm program can't calculate upload speeds with
RC>>  any accuracy because of the effects of the buffer in the modem, and
RC>>  that's why you see excessively high upload speeds.
EC> Ok, the program cannot calculate?  I DID download c&C Command & Conquer 
EC> which is 33 Megs in and hour and a half (um, 90 minutes in case you 
care).  
EC> If you are going to say that it was not compressed it was, maximum with 
EC> PKzip Thank You
Believe what you like.
Rick
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