e-mail

That depends

Some email clients can be set to Send immediately when connected. Sometimes this is default, sometimes not.

Even if that would be the case, it then would depend on the size of the email. Being on dial up, in about 5-8 seconds your system would only be able to send 30-40 KB of data.

But if the email doesn't show in your outbox, it is safe to assume it was send.

Where your fingers faster then your brain

 

It goes down the line at the available speed. 56 kb (kilo-bits) per second roughly equals 5 kB (kilo-bytes) per second and that's the maximum. Under normal conditions it may be considerably lower, maybe 1/2 down to 1/10 of the maximum.

A short message is approximately 10 kB. It could take anything between 4 and 20 seconds. Attaching a picture of say 100 kB makes a significant difference and would increase the time to anything between 44 and 220 seconds. Don't calculate with maximum performance which would mean 2 and 22 seconds respectively, it never happens.

Some AntiVirus software, like Norton, have a popup showing the "send progress" and it goes away when finished.

Downloading a file to the computer demonstrates the time needed and you may have noticed that the speed varies from time to other.

Christer