Re: connection speed when using pon
On Monday 31 January 2005 14:26, Paul wrote:
>John Hasler wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>>But they do not take into consideration the compression done by
>>> the modem.
>>
>> Gene Heskett writes:
>>>Oh, but it does.
>>
>> Those numbers represent the raw bit rate (not baud rate) between
>> the modems. The effective data transfer rate can be much higher
>> but depends on the compressibility of the data.
>
>OK, explain why I can only download at 4.5-5.5 kbps when my
> connection is 48000? And, is there any way to get the speed up?
>
>paul
Very simple Paul, you are getting a 4.5 to 5.5 KiloBYTES per second
perfomance out of a circuit whose advertising dweebs call 56k,
because that 56k is in kiloBITS (or kilobaud, where a baud generally
equals a bit) per second. Generally if the modems can maintain
synchronization, the start and stop bits can be dispensed with *most*
of the time, but there has to be an occasional marker to maintain
synch, so I expect that while the 8 bits per byte plus a start and
stop bits=10 bits per byte sent is cheated a little bit, the amount
of gain by so doing is relatively marginal, and going back to full
useage of start and stop bits per byte sent is probably the first
step down from 56k to 48k as the modems negotiate their comm speeds
for a reasonable error rate. I believe, and its been a while since I
read up on the particular details, that the modems are, when at full
speed, sending the data in 128 bit (16 byte) packets as opposed to 8
bit packets, with a start(1) and stop(0) bit on each end of the
packet as a synch check. My info on that might be dated, but I
haven't noticed modem makers touting a new, improved protocol for use
on POTS lines in several years now.
So, no, if you are getting 4.5-5.5 kilobytes per second, your are
pretty much getting your monies worth. Should the line goto hell and
drop you to below 4k bytes a second, then I would call ma bell or
whoever owns the copper to your place and request they take a look
see at the line with a TDR. Back when I was useing a modem over
POTS, I suddenly dropped all the way to around 1.4k bytes and stayed
there. I eventually called, they tdr'd the line and found one of
their linemen in doing some repairs, had tagged a branch circuit onto
mine with an open on the far end, and the far end was nearly a mile
away. I'd like to have taken a picture of that tdr screen just for
grins. No way in hell that was the optimum flat line clear to the
end. It had to have more ringing than an uncracked liberty bell
showing.
TDR=Time Domain Reflectometer, a means of measureing a cable whose
technology somewhat resembles a radar in that you can see every
putz'd joint, hammer or wrench ding in the outer conductor and bad
connection, even the teflon rings that support the center conductor
in big coax, from one end to the other, and nail it down in terms of
where to dig almost to the exact foot. I've used it on coax cables
1000 feet long and told the tower crew which joint to take apart 720
feet up and fix. Easy when the accuracy is an inch or so, and the
joints are 20 feet apart. :-)
I forgot to mention, I'm a broadcast engineer with about 56 years of
chaseing electrons for a living, now semi-retired at age 70.
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