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- From: 101475.1430@compuserve.com (Jonathan Denison)
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- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:09:07 GMT
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- dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth) wrote:
-
- Microcom/ Tricom in the UK supply modems that connect to the parallel
- port of the PC. Our LAN access solution, the LANDial 200 uses bus
- mounted modems at the central site (no Uart so theoretically no
- throughput bottleneck) and parallel port modems remotely. Using PPP
- or our propriatary protocol LAP_P throughput of over 150K are
- regularly acheived over V.34 with V42 bis compression!
-
- The 4-1 compression is easily achievable with compressible files, the
- bottleneck is the serial port, not the PSTN!
-
-
-
- >Hi,
-
- >Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
-
- >[...]
-
- >: 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.
-
- >The theoretical maximum is well over 50:1. I assume the USR you
- >refer to is not US Robotics of Skokie, Illinois, USA but some
- >other inferior brand. Both my V34 Courier and V32bis Sportster
- >can easily achieve *well* over 3:1 on a file of all zeros.
-
- >: 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.
-
- >[...]
-
- >V42bis is supposed to get 4:1 on a particular test file. Whether
- >that test file is relevent to real life is highly debatable.
- >Usenet news (non-binary groups) (you can argue whether this is
- >"text") compresses by about 2.5:1.
-
- > Dale.
-
- >--
- >******************************************************************************
- >* Dale Shuttleworth *
- >* Email: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk *
- >******************************************************************************
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