Another thing to factor is compression over RAS. Modems will automatically compress the data stream so pre-compressing the data negates that.
If the data were pre-compressed on the far side(where the data is) and uncompressed locally, a small improvement may be realized, but if the compressing/decompressing is done on the same side, the bandwidth will increase rather than decrease.
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