On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:30 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 09:38, Arun K. Khan wrote:
Beware of advertised speeds. The 256Kbps includes the bits of the link layer (ATM) over which the IP stack is initialized. This could be affected by the line quality and how far you are from the Tel. Exchg. At the ATM level I do get 256K/256K and file transfer rates of 25-27 KB/s.
I know we never get the advertised speeds but one should expect 90-95% of the advertised speeds i.e 230-240Kbps ( 28-30KBps ). This isn't unrealistic.
The thumb rule for realistic expectation is: you are doing well if you get advertised speed - 13% (link layer and IP overhead, line quality etc.) which comes to around 222Kbps. Anything over it is gravy.
-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.