-=> Quoting Dave Steeprow on 27 Aug 96  03:13:26 to Anthony Perez <=-
 > I have a Supra 288VFC External, and I have yet to see her at 115k.
 > The most I get on the net (downloading) is 3.3k/sec
 DS> Well, yer doing better than I on the net...I usually only get around
 DS> 1.0-1.5k download. But ya have to fighure too that on the net that you
 DS> are giong through a good number of servers to download that. I know
The problem is likely your ISP, not the other servers. If you want a good 
site to do a test on, go to ftp.cdrom.com and download something... see what 
type of CPS rate you get. You should be able to get around 3000 cps. I 
believe that site has multiple T3's.
I was using one ISP that had a 56k line, and a pool of 10 modems. If you get 
10 28.8 modems trying to use a 56k line, you'll only get about 1000 cps when 
downloading files. Even LESS if they're all downloading, around 500cps!!! It 
seems that people's primary concern is how much they're paying for internet 
access, not level of access they're getting. 
If one person is charging $20/month access, and another $30... guess who 95% 
of the people are going to subscribe to? 
I was looking through some RFC's, and there are port addresses where you can 
open up a telnet session to and all they do is stream information to you. I 
think it's primary function is to judge the type of connection you can get 
with a server. I'm not aware of any "utilities" that do that, but there's 
likely something that can calculate the cps rate.
Also, if you're using windows 95, and 32 bit com programs you can monitor 
your modem throughput with the system monitor in Accessories/System 
Utilities. It's not readily apparent how to do this though. What you need to 
do is open up a connection using the modem and then fire up the system 
monitor. Go to the edit/add item and you should see an item with the same 
name as what Windows called your modem. Add the receive CPS rate and the send 
CPS rate. Using the line chart, and setting the interval to something like 3 
seconds you can see what the maximum cps and stuff is. Can be handy info! 
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