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echo: suprafax
to: JOHN VICKERS
from: WARREN ZATWARNISKI
date: 1996-12-27 00:09:00
subject: 38k4?

*** Quoting John Vickers to Scott Kiddy dated 12-26-96 ***
> I do not use my modem on the net (I get that at work) but I would
> imagine that downloading speeds for web pages would be improved with a
> port speed of 112,000?
Not much if any. The majority of the stuff you receive while connected are 
either graphics (already compressed quite a bit) or files which are already 
compressed.
Web pages are probably only 1% text HTML instructions, and 99% graphics.
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