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From: jhurwit@netcom.com (Jeffrey Hurwit)
Subject: Re: Z-Modem vs FTP: Is the following an accurate comparison?
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In article <6m7s57$s99$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman) wrote:
> PPP adds a great deal of overhead. On a dial-up
>connection there is no additional overhead. So Zmodem will be faster.
Interesting... I download a fair number of reasonably large
compressed .zip files from various software archives. On my Unix
shell account, there are generally two ways I do this: 1) run a PPP
emulator (SLiRP) on my shell and use Netscape for my FTP client, or
2) use lynx over a terminal session (to bring the file to my
provider's machine), then use Kermit to transfer it to my own over
the dialup connection. Given that I'm using recent Kermit versions
tuned for speed (long packets, sliding windows, 8-bit dialup
connection, minimal control character prefixing, block-checking 3),
which method would be faster overall?
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jhurwit@netcom.com Jeffrey Hurwit
"NETCOM: It's not just an ISP, it's a way of life."