From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 18:39:17 GMT-3
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, W Walla wrote:
> Hello!
>
> It is taking me 4 minutes to "Open" a 13 meg EXCEL document across a
> frame-relay Full T1. This does not seem that slow to me for openning such a
> big file. Does anyone have access to a matrix of what it should (really)
> take to transfer data across WAN links like this? The users think it should
> be much faster, but I think that it sounds okay. And email and internet
> traffic are great...
1.5 megabits per second is 11.25 megabytes per minute. Depending on what
else is going on, and what M$ does to "open" it as opposed to just moving
the bits, it could be much longer.
see:
http://poseidon.west.net/cgi-bin/bw.cgi
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