Can anyone direct me to where I can get statistics on download speed
of plain text files versus zipped files? I'm keen to find out if
zipping files really does make them download faster since, as far as I
know, modems compress data before it is transmitted.

Clearly zipped files can't be compressed very much by the modem but
plain text files can, so just because you zip a file to half its size,
does it download in half the time?

I don't have a suitable web server setup to test this hypothesis, I'm
hoping someone here can point me to an article or statistics that can
provide an answer.


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Rob