-=> Quoting Ettore Casagrande to Rick Collins <=-
 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
 EC> anybody that  has a 14400 that downloads every once in a while at
 EC> amazing  speeds?  I am sure you do because I do and very few of my 
 EC> friends have 14400's.  It is not data compression, it is 
 EC> some form of glitch.  By the way, the lines that go to my 
 EC> house are no longer copper, they are fiber optics
 I guess you don't understand much about modems... Your modem most likely
 have the so called 4 to 1 V.42bis compression... which does WONDERS on
 TEXT and other repeating data... THAT'S what you are getting... people here
 have got over 10,000 CPS with a V.34 modem... so your speed is nothing more
 than the compression software working at its best.
 And also, fiber optics don't do much... you still need to have a local hub
 to turn the high capacity fiber optics into hundreds of low capacity
 copper lines... you CAN'T hook up your phones to Fiber optics... cuz
 laser don't transmit well in solid copper.
 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 &
 EC> Conquer which  is 33 Megs in and hour and a half (um, 90 minutes in
 EC> case  you care).  If you are going to say that it was not 
 EC> compressed it was, maximum with PKzip
 Yeah right, you just use ZMODEM RESUME and the program think it is doing
 a million CPS... LOTS of program are like this... My guess is that you
 resumed after downloaded about 26MB of the file...
 People like you should be ashamed of yourself, it is because people pirate
 like you, cause the price increase in the software we buy... go to hell.
 Don't you think about the "Flash & Bang" entry of any discuession group or
 echo... because either the Moderators/Co-Moderators (Dave Raymond and Rick 
 Collins) or the readers will kick you out... FAST...
... Please, GOD, please save me from some of your followers!!
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