wyvrn
09-13-2000, 07:53 AM
I have a laptop with a Toshiba 56k modem. Yesterday, I went into my yahoo account to download some files my wife had sent me for her sister. Anyway, the transfer rates in IE were showing up as average 22k a second. I know that a modem can burst up for a couple of seconds and then it will drop down to something normal like 3-4k a second, but these were 200k-400k documents (5 of them) and they consistently hit the 20-30kb mark. The lowest transfer rate I saw was 12.7k. How can the transfer rate be faster than my actual connection speed???? (accounting for the bit to byte conversion, of course)