On Tuesday 26 October 2004 08:46, A G wrote: > I really dont know what to say. The only thing I can > definitly say is that there always is a vast > difference betw theory n practical. A vast difference yes...but obviously a 100 ml glass can only hold as much right??!!
> I can send you the screenshot of my speeds if you > want. I got similar 8-9 kbps yesterday night at 11:00 > PM. Maybe even if the speeds are shown wrong, what > about the feeling that I got that overall the speed is > fast? (it was due to this feeling that I checked the > speed.) Are you using 98se, your ultra stable OS? Then I guess you could explain the misreporting. > Btw, I didnt get the connection betw 56kbps and 7. How > did you arrive at this fig of 7kbps practical if the > modem is 56? ^^^^^ Firstly that is 7KBps The calculation is simple bit byte conversion AG. 8b=1B. 56kb/8 = 7KBps. So obviously the speeds reported aren't really possible. -- /Sumeet Sumeet Madhukar Moghe http://smith-morgan.mirrorz.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ GnuPG Keys: http://smith-morgan.mirrorz.com/gnupg.txt Fingerprint : 0643 60DE FD44 793A 111E 7EC9 D3E0 3D5B F7A5 0C22 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Truth will be out this morning. (Which may really mess things up.) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.