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> I agree fully, Sherwood, but how do you explain to the users why they're
> getting lower connection rates? Especially if they're, on the average,
> lower than what they got dialing into your analog hunt-group.
User education...plus if you ask them to do real things, most times
they'll notice the subtle difference... like it only connects at xxxxx but
it feels faster... 8)
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> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Sherwood Pekelo wrote:
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> > I've found that connect speeds means diddly... It's nice to see
> > "connected 33600" etc... but what is the actual throughput and does this
> > stay the same for a fully loaded box? I would ask the customers to surf,
> > download, irc, etc. and have them give you their impressions...but don't
> > tell them which is which, just ask them which number they call... ;)
> > for our users into the PM3 most seem to have more solid connects AND say
> > transfers appear quicker...I still have to do a latency check, but I
> > think a few ms won't mean much to most people...
>
-- Aloha,Sherwood