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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Throughput from MILNET
Message-ID: <1628@intercon.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 15:02:00 GMT
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In article <137598.8912131631@asd.wpafb.af.mil>, chabutjc@wpafb.af.mil (John
Chabut) writes:
> I'm sure I'm not the first to notice that even if you
> have two hosts connected to PSNs at 56 kb/s, the throughput
> of an FTP is down around 4 kb/s.

Um, are you sure you're not mixing bits and bytes? 4K bytes per second
is 32K bits per second, which is not too bad across a 56K bits per
second link, especially in the presence of other traffic.

One of the reasons that NSFnet is so much faster than MILnet is that
many PSNs are linked with T1 (or faster) links rather than 56K leased
lines.

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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