Probably auto-compression, which came in around V.32 or so. If you were
downloading compressible data such as text on a 56k modem this works out to
a compression ratio of about 3, which is entirely believable.
Andrew
> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:53:27 -0800
> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Well, your math sounds right. Now how did I download 262,741 bytes in
> under 17 sec. over a dial-up line?
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