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Re: A89: Me distributing roms.


I've gotten 10k/s on a 56k but, it only lasted for ~10 seconds.

Eric Greening
-----Original Message-----
From: Serial <Serial@earthlink.net>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:40 AM
Subject: RE: A89: Me distributing roms.


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>Have you ever gotten 7k/s on a 56k modem? I've not ever gotten above 5.6
>myself
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
>[mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Miles Raymond
>Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:12 PM
>To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
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>A few things.  A 56Kbps modem is not the same as a 5.6KBps modem.
>
>b = bit
>B = byte
>K = kilo
>M = mega
>G = giga
>p = per
>s = second
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>8b = 1B
>1024B = 1KB
>1024KB = 1MB
>1024MB = 1GB
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>8Kb = 8192b = 1024B = 1KB
>8Kbps = 1KBps
>56Kbps = 7KBps
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>A 1mbit cable line would NOT be 100kilobytes per second, but rather
1024Kbps
>(kilobits per second), or 128KBps (kilobytes per second).
>
>> I may not know how to do anything but hello world in asm but networking I
>do
>> know =]
>
>Maybe you should get to know it a little better then...
>
>-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
>ICQ: 13217756       IRC: Killer2        AIM: kilier2
>http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_rayman
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Serial" <Serial@earthlink.net>
>To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:09 PM
>Subject: RE: A89: Me distributing roms.
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>> I believe his math is wrong. The OC256 that at&t is laying across the
>> atlantic to connect the 2 continents is a 2 gbit line which would roughly
>be
>> ~200meg/s
>> the quick conversion for (g)(m)(k)bits/s is to just add 2 zero's and
>reduce
>> to a lower letter if nessessary.
>> for example. a 56kbit modem like an x2 is really 5.6 kilobytes max
>> downstream
>> and a 384k/s downstream dsl would be ~38.4 kilobytes /s
>> a 1mbit cable line would be 100kilobytes per second. etc.
>> I may not know how to do anything but hello world in asm but networking I
>do
>> know =]
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