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- From: gsch0433@w250zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Georg Schwarz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:38:30 +0100
- Organization: My Private Macintosh
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- bgrubb <bgrubb@acca.nmsu.edu> wrote:
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- > > Also: Global Village offers dedicated software compression for their
- > > Platinum V34 modem, which uses the Mac's processor to increase transmission
- > > speed up to 112k (depending on the type of Mac - 040 or PowerPC).
- > As I understand it v.42bis which is built-in can have 4:1 compression.
- > So in some conditions a 144 modem can go up to 57K and a 288 modem can go
- > to 115K. Because of overhead 2:1 ratios are more common.
-
- No, that's not because of overhead!!
- That's simply because the data transferred (and compressed) is not
- redundant enough for better compression ratios. 4:1 is the *theoretical*
- maximum compression ratio, which can only be achieved in ideal
- situations.
- Compression cannot do miracles!
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