Weird dial-up activity

[gamer_013]

Once in a great while something will download or upload at a very high speed compared to the "normal" speed. Which is extremely odd becasue it usually stays around the 3Kb/sec range. I found that this pic downloaded at around 20Kb/sec! Why is it diong that? And why doesn't anything else download at that speed?


This "jpeg" downloaded at about 20Kb/sec

And this happened when i was uploading a file

Can someone tell me whats giong on??

 

[bla!!]

My guess is that you're downloading a file that is very easily compressed. Most dial-up connections use a compression algorithm to "speed-up" your connection.

For example you could download a word document that contained 1000 blank pages at much faster than your maximum bandwidth because of this compression.

 

[gamer_013]

hmmmm, makes sense... thanks for clearing that up, that really stumped me.