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To: pyslent who wrote (127224)	2/27/2003 4:29:13 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

pyslent, re "CNET uses a jpg file for speed measurements, and as I'm sure you've noticed, Vision compresses all jpgs that get delivered to your laptop." "compresses all jgps"? That makes no sense to me. A JPG file is already a compressed image file. Trying to compress it again is just a waste of time and processor power. Is CNET maybe sending an uncompressed image file as a JPG file? And then counting the compression gain as part of the speed measurement? Ron

To: pyslent who wrote (127224)	2/27/2003 7:31:40 PM
From: verdad	Respond to of 152472

Who's going to buy the stock if idiots like you keep telling it like it is? - g -

To: pyslent who wrote (127224)	2/27/2003 7:51:33 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Actually, the most intriging part about the speed meter on cnet is if you choose wireless as your ISP then you got those high numbers. If you try others then the numbers are different. The most reliable way to calculate your throughput might be use ftp. And that number is about the application speed which is about 10-15% lower than the theoritical raw speed due to the over heads, retransmission, flow control, congestion control etc etc. So usually the ftp TP I got out of my phone are about 11~13KBPS which is about 90 ~ 110kbps, ftp speed, which is real good numbers considering I got real poor reception level in my house.