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Message ID: 4888
Date: Wed Aug 4 21:16:59 BST 1999
Author: John Kim
Subject: Re: Graphics/Bandwidth (this is long and relatively technical, you've been warned)
>After researching it a bit on the web, it seems the newest
> common numbers are usually around 3.5-5 kbps on clean lines. Someone
> mentioned that winmodems, which are software driven, vice hardware modem
> implementations add 100 ms to ping times due to additional CPU load. Sorta,
> but not quite - the additional load on the CPU is only the actual
> decomposition of data, the relatively laborious modulation/demodulation is
> done by the chip on board the winmodem. In real terms this only adds MAYBE
> 1-2% to the CPU load and its relatively low-priority and almost nil in real
> world transmission rates (maybe +10 ms) - it doesn't make that big of an
> impact on game play. The price difference between a winmodem and hardware