Re: Personal Oracle

In article <1995Feb2.225421_at_ynp.dialup.access.net>, Youri N. Podchosov says...
>How do you guys manage to get that slow speeds? I see these figures -
>10, 11, 12 hours - not for the first time, but I downloaded PO7 twice
>(last week): both transfers were at 14.4K, started at 1:00AM and ended
>at 5:40AM and 5:55AM resp. Taking in consideration some slowness of
>Oracle WWW server and known overheads for TCP/IP over PPP vs.
 DOS/Windows
>Zmodem over plain dial-in, I used to expect a throughput about 4M/hr
>(vs. 6+M/hr in DOS or Windows), which is pretty close to my experience.
>
>So why 12 hr to download 16M?
>

Pahhahhah! (Insane cackle of laughter!)
I managed to download the first part on 31st of January. I'm still trying to download part 8 (1.8M) Usually, I seem to manage one section per day, starting at about 9 am (UK time). After that, the transfers just don't get through...

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