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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Images Group
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Date: 20 Nov 89 14:43:55 GMT
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In article <65.25647EF1@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG> rick@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG (Rick Ellis) writes:

| How long does it usually take at 2400?

  I'm sure Brandon will answer for himself, but I can provide some stats
from a few sites I run or feed. Average xfer rate is about 210 bytes/sec
at 2400. This is a quarter MB/hr. Figuring a 60% increase in size for
decompression, you can approximate the effective transfer rate at
1.2MB/hr. Actual observed xfer is very close to this, but varies by
content to values of 800KB-1400KB (per hour).

  The one site I feed at 1200 is getting just about half of this rate,
so it appears fairly linear. Note that data content and system load (and
uucp tuning) have a lot to do with this. This is representative of
machines doing the xfer at a light load time, over local connecrtions
and/or MNP modems, with uucico set for seven buffers on all machines.

  I hope this is useful.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon