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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:18:58 +1030 (CST)

Re: Auslinx Tasmanian Devil modem

> > My modem is an ActionTec External 56K.... I have noticed in
> > Windows I get around 6kb/sec, sometimes jumping to 10kb/sec.. in
> > linux, it never goes past about 4kb/sec... (I am using the drivers
> > for the external modem though in windows...)
> 
> How are you measuring this?  Keep in mind that the kbytes/sec
> figures given in the status bar of web browsers are uniformly
> inaccurate...

I do find it worrying, the number of people who rely on Netscape's
status bar transfer rate as a way of measuring modem performance.

Just for the record, my Netcom 33.6K just gave me a reading of 58.4K/s
(if you go by the Netscape bar.)

Of course this is over a compressed ssh link, and the page was full of
repeated text, but how was Netscape to know?

Cheers

Alex!

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