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From: muftix@asbach.nbg.sub.org (Juergen Ernst Guenther)
Newsgroups: de.comm.isdn,comp.dcom.isdn
Subject: Re: Is EuroFileTransfer faster than FTP+IP+PPP?
Date: 2 Jan 1996 21:03:22 +0100
Organization: Quell goettlicher Weisheit
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dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
>Anyone out there know what the normal throughput
>of a EuroFileTransfer session is? Can it use 2 B channels?
>Is it faster than FTP?
The normal throughput can be approx. 7.5KB/s with
both EFT and (optimal) ftp.
There should be no major difference when both sites can
be accessed directly. But of course via Internet ftp
is rather slower.
>macnosy@jasik.com (Steve Jasik) asks:
>> Dan,
>>
>> How come I never see xfer rates greater than 10K bytes per second
>> on an ISDN line with 64K clear channel ?
>>
>> I talked to someone at my ISP and they claimed the best they
>> could do was 12K bytes per second under ideal conditions.
>>
>> Inquiring minds want to know where is the rest of my Bandwidth ?
>>
>> I would expect to see 14 to 16K bytes per second under reasonable
>> conditions.
>Good question. Maybe it's the overhead of PPP+TCP,
>or maybe nobody's ever really tried to do it right.
??
It's not 64K but 64kbps=64000bps = 8000 bytes/s = 7.8125 KB/s
With minimum framing it's rather ~7.7KB/s optimum.
So there are only two ways to increase data rate above 8 KB/s:
- Channel bundeling:
Depends on the TCP/IP-Stack and the server programs behind.
Some PC-Stacks are actually slower on 2 B channels because
they cannot deal with overtaking packets and therefore
suffer from many many retransmissions.
Normal throughput can be ~15KB/s on both channels
- Data compression:
Poor man's channel bundeling. Very efficient with many
many parallel dumb terminal sessions. Almost nonsense
transferring pictures, sound files or file archives as
most of them are far better dealt with by any sophisticated
offline compression program.
So I really don't know what you mean with 14 to 16KB/s...
.m.
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muftix@asbach.nbg.sub.org
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