In article <9957jv$39r$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:
> My wife recently connected her PC to Freeserve so I now at last see
> for myself how slow a link to a site down the road can be (4kb per
> sec, despite a high speed modem. I wonder if Freeserve deliberately
> slow it down so that people stay connected longer, and then
> freeserve get a commission from the telephone company.)
I think 4K/sec is all you can expect from a phone line. I rarely got
more than that from which.net or lineone.net: sometimes 6K/sec when
downloading news, which I expect compresses well.
Sometimes, of course, it's *much* worse, when the servers get loaded.
Being early risers helps: between 5am-7am it can be quite speedy.
We have recently acquired a cable modem. I'd hate to go back to a phone
line.
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