wow 14-15K/sec download speed on my 56K modem!

[burnup]

wow i went to download www.usb.org/usbready.exe (http://www.usb.org/usbready.exe) and i'm getting way above my expectations on my download speed, its like 14-15k/sec rate!!! i usually get 2.5 or 2.9k/sec download speed!!

whats going on here??? it is just the site is not carrying any users or what??

i had installed Tweak Dun a while ago and uninstalled it and thats when that started(i left the default settings alone)

[This message has been edited by burnup (edited 02-03-2000).]

[2canSAM]

I just checked it out and it started at around 89.3 then dropped to 14.8 it stayed around 14.8 for a couple of minutes then came to my expected 3-4. Something must not be right. Wierd though cause I was only connected at 26400.

[burnup]

nope mine stayed like in 14k/sec, i think the other time i had download it at 17k/sec!

weird

same here i'm connected at only 26,400 bps

[Mntsnow]

try downloading it from my website (http://www.aros.net/~mntsnow/downloads/usbready.exe) and see what kind of speed you get.

Mntsnow

ps. Its the same file byte for byte

[burnup]

wow i'm getting 17k/sec from your site Mntsnow!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mntsnow]

Cool...I like my ISP http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow

[alan]

peaked at 16.8 and thats from the uk
most impressive
alan http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[bigslammer]

incredible 532kb in 49 secs. uh is the FCC gonna be coming after us. explanation for this on a 56k modem.

[Joel Kleppinger]

It must be a highly compressible file. Try zipping it - it probably will end up at something like 140-160 K.

[hai]

I got 65KB/s uploading speed from a 56K modem. No kidding.

[BBA]

I got 340K/sec from mntsnows site...thats good for me too...

[netsurfer]

Joel's probably right. I downloaded a PDF file from www.sblive.com (http://www.sblive.com) and it stayed at around 12kb/sec when I was on a 56k dialup @ 45333.

Also, when I downloaded 1 meg text files from people on IRC they easily went to 12000-13000CPS on 56k.

Now I'm on cable, and whenever I download anything... the speedshift is crazy. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[awwall]

Joel was absolutely correct. EXE file zipped down to 49k. Think must be full of helium.

aw

[AuraEdge]

If you download any huge files, such as...say a Linux distibution...youll seeyour download speed go up VERY high for the first few seconds...maybe even a couple minutes. 56k is really a 33.6 compressed download pipe isnt it?

[Joel Kleppinger]

Regarding the 56kbps vs. 33.6kbps question, no, 56kbps != 33.6 compressed. Modems have been using hardware compression since the 2400bps days - 33.6 modems have this, too - it's called v.42bis compression (pulling this from memory - could be v.41).

What 56k is is a dependence on the switch to be digital on its end so it uses a bit more of the available frequency than it's supposed to to the telephone network switch, which converts the signal to digital and then passes it on to the ISP which must be connected digitally to the telephone network.
Unfortunately, this only works on the downstream, not the upstream, due to the nature of current telephone network hardware. Since they'd have to replace it anyway, they aren't even messing with that and just implementing DSL-able switches to replace those switches. 56kbps is a dying speed - I sure wouldn't be using it if I had a choice.

[Underclocked]

39 seconds for the download from Mntsnow's server. WOW!! I could live with that all the time.
Same time from the other server.

[This message has been edited by Underclocked (edited 02-04-2000).]

[oblivion]

Are you using DUmeter?? I use it.
I find windows to very inaccurate on DL speeds.