My friend has Dial up and says that he gets 20 kilobytes per second downloads but that isnt possible because he has a 56 kilobit modem so the maxium possible is 56/8= 7 kilo bytes per second. so how can he be getting 20 kb / second?
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My friend has Dial up and says that he gets 20 kilobytes per second downloads but that isnt possible because he has a 56 kilobit modem so the maxium possible is 56/8= 7 kilo bytes per second. so how can he be getting 20 kb / second?
I know very little about hardware but i dont see hows he is getting a constant connection transfer rate of 20Kbps. Using a 56k modem to download songs off of WinMx on a good day i get about 4 to 5Kbps but usualy it's about 2 to 3Kbps.
a few things -
there are a few different standards for 56k modems. There is plain 56k, which as you rightly say will give 7kb/s. As 56k is the speed of most telephone networks you can't physically fit more thru them... so modem makers got clever - they added compression technology which a (compatible) server uses before it sends you the data, then your modem uses in reverse before it gives the data to your computer. This is used in 56k v90 and 56k v92, but I've got no idea what their effective speeds can be.
there's also the possibility your friend is reading it wrong - lots of people assume kilo-bytes when it's really kilo-bits.
WinMX and Kazaa type systems will always be slower than a normal connection - they need to link to another pc rather than a server, and the pc will most likely have a significantly slower connection than most web servers.
he says that KaZaA is telling him that hes getting 20kbs per second and its not jumping around. I was just looking for a reasonable explaination(except for him being crazy:D).
Well, he can't be getting 20 kilobytes/sec.
He is either telling fibs or for some strange reason his Kazaa is giving him false readings. :)
Sometimes, when you click on a link,
first you get the dialog box, to save the file.
After you enter the name, and location to save it to, if you press save, you'll get a high speed, like 20 kb/s or even 40 kb/s. That's buffering.
Which is probably what he saw.
Exactly . I've seen lots of software that can tweak your modem settings to get 200% speed (well , that's they are saying) . All bull**** . They are liers I don't believe this kind of tweaking . My friend tried that program (I can't recall it ) , it gave him speed like 90 k though he was on speed 56 k modem . That sounds crazy .:DQuote:
Originally posted by mendhak
Sometimes, when you click on a link,
first you get the dialog box, to save the file.
After you enter the name, and location to save it to, if you press save, you'll get a high speed, like 20 kb/s or even 40 kb/s. That's buffering.
Which is probably what he saw.
But <ABX said that he was getting a constant 20kb/s, not just for a few seconds :)Quote:
Originally posted by mendhak
Sometimes, when you click on a link,
first you get the dialog box, to save the file.
After you enter the name, and location to save it to, if you press save, you'll get a high speed, like 20 kb/s or even 40 kb/s. That's buffering.
Which is probably what he saw.
But some people like to exaggerate. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Celest
But <ABX said that he was getting a constant 20kb/s, not just for a few seconds :)
Or just completely lie. :)
I'm not trying to take sides here , but what mendhak said is *completely* true (If he said for some seconds). It happens on all MS OSs .Quote:
Originally posted by Celest
Or just completely lie. :)
I didn't say that mendhak's statement was false. Btw, it doesn't happen on Windows CE. :)
Depends what you're downloading, I got 22k/sec out of a 14.4, but that was downloading newsgroups (i.e., text-based).
If you're getting faster speeds than you expect, its nearly always compression.