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From:	Roel Wigboldus
To:	Rusty Tucker
Subject:	Costs ISDN/TCP from Europe
Date:	Fri, February 27, 1998 08:52 PM

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Rusty,

I downloaded TF/User 4.0b4 (.sea, 709K) both via TCP and ISDN.
From Holland, the speeds (in cps) and costs (in dollar ¢ents) are:

speed kb/min ¢/min transfertime(min) total cost
TCP: 1850 111 12.7 6.4 81 ¢
ISDN: 4270 299 108.3 2.4 257 ¢

These speeds are what I generally get these days.
ISDN at SpiderIsland BBS (56k) used to be better in the past, about 6000 cps.
At Spider BBS (Holland; 64k) I usually get 7500 cps or up.

TCP at SpiderIsland, at SpiderHolland or other TF BBS's show about the same speeds; a maximum of about 2000 cps for .sit files, against 3500 cps for .hqx files when using Anarchie to FTP from Hawaii.

What do you think of these figures?
Do you have an explanation for the low ISDN speeds?

Roel Wigboldus
Spider BBS, Delft, Holland
TCP: spider.dataweb.nl

(same msg posted in TCP/IP Q&A)

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