Weird dial-up activity

gamer_013 · 07-29-2005, 11:55 PM

Once in a great while something will download or upload at a very high speed compared to the "normal" speed. Which is extremely odd becasue it usually stays around the 3Kb/sec range. I found that this pic downloaded at around 20Kb/sec! Why is it diong that? And why doesn't anything else download at that speed?

This "jpeg" downloaded at about 20Kb/sec
http://www.freewebs.com/gamer_013/Images/dial-up.jpg

And this happened when i was uploading a file
http://www.freewebs.com/gamer_013/Images/dial-up2.jpg

Can someone tell me whats giong on??

bla!! · 07-30-2005, 02:12 AM

My guess is that you're downloading a file that is very easily compressed. Most dial-up connections use a compression algorithm to "speed-up" your connection.

For example you could download a word document that contained 1000 blank pages at much faster than your maximum bandwidth because of this compression.

gamer_013 · 07-30-2005, 09:54 AM

hmmmm, makes sense... thanks for clearing that up, that really stumped me.

07-29-2005, 11:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
gamer_013 Newb Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 7	Weird dial-up activity Once in a great while something will download or upload at a very high speed compared to the "normal" speed. Which is extremely odd becasue it usually stays around the 3Kb/sec range. I found that this pic downloaded at around 20Kb/sec! Why is it diong that? And why doesn't anything else download at that speed? This "jpeg" downloaded at about 20Kb/sec http://www.freewebs.com/gamer_013/Images/dial-up.jpg And this happened when i was uploading a file http://www.freewebs.com/gamer_013/Images/dial-up2.jpg Can someone tell me whats giong on??

07-30-2005, 02:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
bla!! Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Location: /usr/root/mn/us Posts: 1,121	My guess is that you're downloading a file that is very easily compressed. Most dial-up connections use a compression algorithm to "speed-up" your connection. For example you could download a word document that contained 1000 blank pages at much faster than your maximum bandwidth because of this compression. __________________ Its a frigging Laptop, not a Labtop!!!!

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07-30-2005, 09:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
gamer_013 Newb Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 7	hmmmm, makes sense... thanks for clearing that up, that really stumped me.