-> MIKE FARRILL wrote in a message to PRATAP DERRICK:
->
-> MF> Actually, It will, Your slow modem is the bottleneck of the
-> MF> internet. The backbone runs at 622mbps, while modems run at a
-> slow MF> 28800 or 33600bps!
->
-> Mike, if your server has a T3 link, you are sharing a 45Mbps connect
-> other caller on the system.  If 2000 callers are on the system, you h
-> average of 22Kbps per caller.  Given the highly graphic nature of
-> many web sites, chat sites and the like, you can easily saturate
-> that T3 line.
I don't have internet access, but my friend does.
->  Other web sites may not have the benefit of a T3 link
-> -- several that I access run on T1 (1.5Mbps) and lesser lines.  One
-> ftp site that I access gives me a 1 to 1.2 kilobytes per second
-> transfer rate.  A data rate that my old v.32/v.42 modem could come
-> close to keeping up with.  I haven't noticed any impr v.34 or x2.
That's pretty bad, my friend with the Internet acount gets from 3.2-4.0k
per second.
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