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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Maximum transfer speed
Date: 31 Oct 1995 14:33:16 GMT
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In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.951030000148.24557B-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu>,
Psychos 'R Us <honge@creighton.edu> wrote:
: ...
: Per someone else's suggestion, I typed these on the HP-UX kermit before
: giving it the command "server" and begin downloading:
:
: set file type binary
: set warning on
: set buffer 65536 65536
: set window 24
: set send packet 2048
: set block-check 2
: set flow none
: set flow rts
:
: With OS/2 c-kermit, the transfer rate is around 1350cps.
:
Which can probably be pushed up towards 1600 bps by unprefixing
control-characters.
: With MS-kermit...
:
Which version?
: ... the transfer rate is around 880cps. The effeciency is around 18%.
:
The percent efficiency is based on the interface speed, not the
modulation speed. Since ZIP files can't be further compressed by
the modem, the upward bound on transferring them is approximately
1.11 times the modulation speed = 1600 cps (derivation of this figure
is left as an exercise for the reader :-). 880 cps is therefore more
like 55%, not 18%.
: There are almost no retries. FYI, Y-modem G under same situation
: will do around 1681cps with Hayes Smartcom (MS-DOS app) or halite that
: came with OS/2. I have set both OS/2 ck and MS-DOS kermit to rts/cts.
: ...
: The machine has Hayes ESP, which is kinda like 16550A with extended
: buffer size. The modem is Hayes Accura 14.4, which I think is also a
: decent modem...
:
The most likely explanation involves the Hayes ESP board. It can be used
at three different levels: nonbuffered 8250 UART compatibility mode,
16-byte FIFO 16550A UART compatibility mode, and "native" ESP mode (with
1K buffer, DMA, etc), which is quite different from anything else on the
planet and requires special drivers. Now obviously Hayes Smartcom knows
how to drive the ESP board to full advantage, hence the higher transfer
rates with Hayes software. I expect that the OS/2 serial driver knows
enough about the ESP to put it into 16550A mode, but beyond that, does not
bother with the Hayes-specific features.
I might be mistaken, but I believe that some special magic is required to
put the ESP in 16550A mode, and this magic first appeared in MS-DOS Kermit
version 3.14. If that is true, then previous releases probably use it in
character-at-a-time 8250 mode, which would explain the symptoms you
report. We did look at adding a Hayes ESP driver to MS-DOS Kermit, but it
turned out to be a huge amount of work for a relatively small audience,
and so it wound up in a rather low position on our priority list.
- Frank