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| Thread ID: 64966 | 2006-01-03 05:44:00 | Quick methods of file transfer on dialup connections | Albert (482) | Press F1 |
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| 417620 | 2006-01-04 01:44:00 | Albert, it's not a matter of fast or slow "methods" . You are trying to move "information" to and from your computer through a link . The rate of information transfer in a link is determined by the bandwidth of the medium . Much information has redundancy . This is how you can understand speech through a huge amount of noise . If the channel is clean, most of the redundancy can be removed . This is the fundamental part of "compression" . "Compression" has a limit . Once all the redundancy has been removed, that is it . I suppose music could be compressesed to a fairly extreme level, but you probably wouldn't like the result when it was played . "Real" information like programmes and data and text must be compressed in such a way that the content can be restored . For quite a few years, the Internet link for New Zealand was a 56 kbit/sec channel . That was quite usable: fewer people used it, WWW hadn't been perpetrated, emails were less than 1k, files were much smaller . MP3's hadn't been invented . CDs were pressed, so no one downloaded 650 BB ISOs . FTP was the main "File Transfer Protocol", and usually files were kept to less than 320 kB (so they would fit on one floppy :D) . The wire between your ISP and your computer is the limiting factor . Probably any overheads in the various "modern" file transfer systems are irrelevant compared to that . |
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| 417621 | 2006-01-05 02:30:00 | Very valid point. I should have thought of that. Perhaps then I should just upgrade to broadband eh? | Albert (482) | ||
| 417622 | 2006-01-05 03:53:00 | I think too that the phone link between your comp and the ISP is critical. In my limited experience I have ofted found that the reason someone's internet has "gone slow" is because of noise on (rural) phone lines. If you keep your comp clean (ie, no malware, resource hogs, no heamorraging startup file) then the phone is the next thing. :thumbs: | mark c (247) | ||
| 417623 | 2006-01-05 04:43:00 | I remember seeing in the museums that some of the older machinery had crankhandles, to get them started or to run. Maybe the dialup modem has something similar :p Seriuos, get broadband |
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