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From: Psychos 'R Us <honge@creighton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Maximum transfer speed
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 22:19:40 -0600
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: : 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 MS-kermit...
: :
: Which version?
3.14 patch 0 (21 May 1995)
: : ... 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%.
Right now, with all the control characters unprefixed, the transfer is
exactly 1187cps at 14.4k -- which, in my opinion, little bit low. (: But
it was an improvement from 880cps.
: : 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
: ...
: 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.
For more FYI, I strictly do ZIPped download -- as such, I always try to
turn off the hardware compression. With the Hayes Smartcom, I found it
makes no difference in downloading speed whether the modem is going
through Hayes ESP or a plain 8250-equipped built-in serial port.
So from that fact, there are some heavy-duty overhead works going on with
kermit which I cannot put my finger on. I found the unprefix all does not
always work. With 50-50 chance, the transfer will be aborted after 1st
packet received with "unprefix all".
Right now I still use Z-modem and Y-modem G to download, but eventually I
would like to change everything to kermit. I welcome any further comments
and suggestions to get kermit working...
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