I can only tell you that it is taking the same amount of time to download as if someone was connecting at half the typical dial-up speed. So I would say that the 22 K is indeed referring to the same as the dial-up K reading. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> To: "'Sean McMahon'" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>; "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:24 PM Subject: RE: check out my ftp site speed He's mixing up 56k and 22KB ... 56k refers to kilobits as expressed on here many times before. 22k is download speed in killobytes ... Meaning it's equal to 176 killobits for comparison ... Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Sean McMahon Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:18 PM To: Glenn at home; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: check out my ftp site speed That sounds right. And it isn't half the dialup speed, it's about 5 times the dialup speed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn@home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: Re: check out my ftp site speed > The report I got was about 22 K, a little less than half the typical > dial-up speed. I am on brodband, so it should be at least 3 times > that. Unless there is some tweaking with ifconfig that needs to be > done, I am wondering if I should not expect a good transfer speed via > my server. Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name> > To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:52 AM > Subject: Re: check out my ftp site speed > > > Bear in mind that your browser or FTP client will report download > speeds in kilobytes/second, where your line speed is measured in > kilobits/second. Unless you're expecting to get a 1 megabit/second > connection, your downloaders are getting about what they ought to be. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | Alena Grace's proud papa! > Phone: (814) 455-7333 | Born: 04/06/2000 in Donetsk, Ukraine > Email: buddy at brannan.name | Adopted: 10/07/2004 in Mariupol, Ukraine > http://buddy.brannan.name | > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
