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- From: eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:20:54 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-2601960120540001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- References: <sumner-2001961038000001@sumner.tiac.net> <4ds0fp$4ap4@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <AD29910A96685C7229@asd-stat13-153.dial.xs4all.nl> <bgrubb-2301960739100001@10.0.2.15> <4e3lbi$r3m@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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- In article <4e3lbi$r3m@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
- gsch0433@w250zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
-
- >bgrubb <bgrubb@acca.nmsu.edu> wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- Actually, 4:1 is ***NOT*** the max. (Although some modems, like USR,
- can't even approach 3:1 on a file of all zeros). I have actually *seen*
- compression ratios up to 8:1 with standard v.42bis, but on EXTREMELY
- compressible files of course. On some modems, 4:1 becomes a theoretical
- limit only because of the maximum supported DTE rate. v.42bis (BLTZ)
- compression is supposed to get 4:1 compression on text files, but for most
- text it is in the area of 3:1. For executable files it is usually around
- 1.5:1, and of course for ZIP and other compressed files, the usual range
- is between 1.0:1 and 1.1:1. .MID files and the beginning of .MOD files
- (before the waveforms) typically get 5 or 6 to 1, if the DTE rate at both
- ends allows it and the processor compressing in the sending modem is a
- decent speed.
-