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- From: estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Astounding high CPS rate!
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 14:43:33 GMT
- Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA"
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- armhead@infinet.com (Bob Selfinger) wrote about {Astounding high CPS rate!}
- in 'comp.dcom.modems'...
-
- ~ I have just gotten some dl's in the range of 1800-2100!
- ~ I never got that, even before the noise. It is not the files
- ~ being compressable or anything like that. They were all zip
- ~ files from various sources.
-
- ~ Here is the thing... I was going between two PC's, each on a
- ~ separate phone line in the same house. Now, a severely
- ~ uninformed person might have predicted this - Hey, there is
- ~ only a short distance to go! But I know (or thought I knew!)
- ~ that this would not make any difference - the call still has
- ~ to go all the way to the phone office and then back, and these
- ~ two phone lines are each on different exchanges from each other.
- ~ I just don't see why this should have worked so well. Both
- ~ lines are noisey. I was expecting 1000-1300 CPS as usual.
- ~ I am stumped. Both PC's are still getting 1000-1300 on dl's
- ~ from BBS's. What is happening here?
- ===============================================
- For properly configured modems compression of <*.zip> files is no big deal.
- Actually, zip file transfers of only 2,100 cps is slow for a 14.4!
-
- Most, if not all, BBS's & ISP's 'Do Not' have compression enabled. It takes
- *TWO* properly configured modems and with a BBS on one end you will never
- see true high speed compression. Not knowing exactly what your set-up is
- there's a high probability you've inadvertently stumbled onto what most
- people believe to be impossible, 'Zip files ARE compressible!' If you have
- 16550 UART's and are able to set the TxFIFOBuffer to 16 give it a try, now
- send to yourself on the other PC. Depending on your modems capabilities and
- their configuration you could see rates of 5,000 cps, or higher, for <*.zip>
- files!
-
- Incidentally, internal modems are 'usually' better at compression than
- externals. Not because of the 16550 but because internal modems buffer the
- UART via 'Additional RAM'. An external modem has 'Zero RAM' unless using a
- Hayes ESP card. LAPM modems are better than MNP, higher compression ratios.
-
- When you have control of both modems transfer rates can be quite high.
- Normally (99.94 % of the time) you only have control over one modem.
-
- Ed..
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