What is the fastest possible download on a dialup connecton of 46.6kb/s in the USA....I thought it was around 10kb/s, but i wasnt sure.
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Sometimes I see that the DL speed in a P2P program go up to 12, 20 or 40 KBytes/s, but only when resume or reconnect to the user, and it don't last to much.
Other case is that certain servers from universities, the DL speed is sometimes 12 o 15 KBytes/s (constant).
I guess it physically cannot be posible reach that speed (20KBytes/s) with conventional lines, maybe they have digital lines o two lines, or something else.
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Also remember that most modems support real time compression, which means that when you are downloading a web page that is mainly text, you will easily hit speeds of 15 - 20 K, becuase text compresses ALOT. Things that are already compressed, images, zips, mp3's, only come down at your connect speed. So if you connect at 53.333 Kbps (maximum supported by the US phone system) divide that by 8, and you get 6.66 KB/second.
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As zeradul was saying, some things are heavily compressed, so what you see coming in is not the amount of data that is being transferred.
Have a quick look through <a href="http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10174" target="_blank">this</a> thread.
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