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To: Rene Madsen who wrote (33789)	3/11/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 176387

RM, Not really! The 12M is bytes, so acually 120M 'bits' (including control and check), and the 400K is 'bit' rate, so you have 120,000,000/400,000= 300 seconds/60= 5 minutes, but you only get 'service' on a 'round robin' distribution, and as the 'load' increases, the time between you service segments increases, and the effective download rate drops! That same download took 2.5 hours at 28.8 including wait time. (Actual ~69 minutes) Also, dish doesn't work with IE4.0, at least not the last time I checked! Had to use IE3.02 and Hughes stated that they weren't going to upgrade the software! I disconnected! Regards, Ken