[photo-3d] Re: Download times (was Question for newsletter editors - pdf picture quality)

["Robert Brand" <rb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, Herbert C Maxey <bmaxey1@xxxx> wrote:

> I should point out that often 56K does not mean 56K - In fact,
> seldom will a 56K modem run full out. 

This is true, but I was getting into so much detail as it was. I'm 
not sure about US telephone companies, but in other parts of the 
world you are allowed to run at 56K if you can. Digital lines will 
allow 56K ang the phone company should not complain from a technical 
view point. Maybe the ISP has an issue locally. Remember the upload 
side is still around half that speed because the 56K modems are 
asymetrical.

I am not advocating DSL for all although it sounds like it. This is a 
pricing issue. I currently use a 33k modem at home so I know the 
issues. This is because I run a number of servers to the Intertnet 
backbone for virtually nothing. Soon I will be upgrading to DSL at 
high cost, but the fact remains that a PC with a 33K modem (or 28K) 
when set up to optimum will produce good access. I can download at 
around 8Mb per hour. A 500k file will take me 3.75 minutes - no big 
deal.

Robert Brand