19KB/s on dial-up?!?

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Um, I just downloaded a file at 19 kilo BYTES a second. On dial up. Is that normal? Having had dial up for about 5 years, and knowing it has a limit of 7KB/s, how is it possible for it to download at 19KB/s?
I was downloading a 650kb pdf, and it downloaded in a matter of seconds, which is something I have never before experienced. Opera (On Ubuntu) reported it as downloading at around 19KB/s, as did gPPP. When I tried downloading another file, it was down to the normal speed of 4.5KB/s.
Anyone know why/how this would happen?
 
Mavix said:
Um, I just downloaded a file at 19 kilo BYTES a second. On dial up. Is that normal? Having had dial up for about 5 years, and knowing it has a limit of 7KB/s, how is it possible for it to download at 19KB/s?
I was downloading a 650kb pdf, and it downloaded in a matter of seconds, which is something I have never before experienced. Opera (On Ubuntu) reported it as downloading at around 19KB/s, as did gPPP. When I tried downloading another file, it was down to the normal speed of 4.5KB/s.
Anyone know why/how this would happen?
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PC is drunk, Alcohol 120% must first be uninstall. lol

:D
 
If the file is small enough ... yes.

Odds on you weren't using http protocol.
 
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It's also possible that the file can be compressed quite well. Modem is slow enough for you to easily compress the data stream without negatively affecting latency. I've gotten almost 70KB/s from a particularly active telnet session once.
 
Opera was calculating the speed based on the uncompressed size.
 
Certain files do download fast on dial up cos they can be compressed.... its like you are downloading a zipped file
 
SYNERGY said:
It was most probably cached locally>
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Most likely, yes. What also happens now and then is when you click on "save as", whilst you are browsing for the folder to save it to, it starts downloading already... and when you finally click on "save", it appears to download at a higher speed. This often causes my ADSL (384-> 39KBps) to download at over 100KBps.
 
froot said:
Most likely, yes. What also happens now and then is when you click on "save as", whilst you are browsing for the folder to save it to, it starts downloading already... and when you finally click on "save", it appears to download at a higher speed. This often causes my ADSL (384-> 39KBps) to download at over 100KBps.
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Thank you froot! Some one around here clicked what was happening here at least. Quite a common occurence ;)
 
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