larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (02/23/90)
In article <959@codonics.COM>, bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn) writes: > > Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there > any good reason to disable it? Do you have any data to demonstrate that > throughput is *decreased* by enabling compression for a compressed newsfeed? > In many cases enabling compression in the modem will actually increase the about of time to transfer the file - ie: with compressed and or archived data. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: larry@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry 4 inbound dialup high speed line public access system