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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: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:54:34 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-0302960154340001@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> <eric-2601960120540001@sobt.accessorl.net> <DM0A30.1x@giskard.demon.co.uk> <eric-0102960011580001@sobt.accessorl.net> <DM429x.w4@giskard.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <DM429x.w4@giskard.demon.co.uk>, dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale
- Shuttleworth) wrote:
-
- >I know for a fact (and am quite happy to demonstrate) that my Courier
- >can achieve near 11520 bytes/sec on highly compressible files. I have
- >even seen some five second periods of PPP traffic where 10kbytes/sec
- >was sustained.
-
- With PPP, this is possible, because PPP does its own compression in your
- computer before the data reaches the modem, so the modem has less data to
- compress. Compressed data travels slower through a PPP/SLIP connection
- than it would normally because of the extra overhead of PPP/SLIP and TCP
- protocols. Uncompressed data can actually travel faster though, because
- of PPP's compression, or CSLIP compression when used with slip. Can your
- Courier do this with a plain old Zmodem or Ymodem-G transfer? I seriously
- doubt it, because the ones here CAN'T.
-
-
- >I suggest that you may have poor telephone connections, are using faulty
- >modems or your measurements may be flawed in some way.
-
- The two Couriers were connected to two computers less than 10 feet apart
- from each other, and I connected the line jack on the two modems with a
- straight 8-foot phone cord, the same one that was used with the Supras
- achieving over 11K/s. ATX3D was typed on one modem, then ATA on the
- other. There was no significant line noise, as the data was not
- travelling through Southern Bell's phone lines. The modems reported that
- they were connected at 33600bps due to the near perfect line conditions.
- Even with Ymodem-G, both computers reported transfer speeds between the
- Couriers of 6200-6300cps.
-
- It is interesting to note, however, that the Courier can achieve over
- 10K/s (but still not over 11K/s) when downloading from a NON-USR, but not
- when UPLOADING. This agrees with the processor in it being too slow,
- because most compression protocols require more time to compress (like
- uploading) than to decompress (like downloading), probably including
- v.42bis.
-