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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28880 bps with a 386 ???
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 16:14:09 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4flm71$11tq@seminole.gate.net>
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- Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- : In article <4fghfv$3v8@seminole.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- : >The download time should be virtually the same no matter what the CPU. That
- : >is a matter of DCE speed and line quality. Now, if you are talking about
- : >display times, that is another matter entirely and that is an issue of
- : >processing the data received. It might matter if Netscape (or whatever
- : >software you use) processes the data as it comes in and tells the modem
- : >to stop receiving while processing each chunk received. I would be
- : >surprised if this were so since the siftware should be processing data as
- : >it comes in but allowing the data to continue to flow while handling it.
- :
- : With normal file transfers, especially if you aren't doing much
- : multitasking, the CPU does not matter. In Netscape and a lot of other TCP
- : programs, it does. I could easily see a 386 not decompressing JPEGs in
- : Netscape as fast as a 28.8 modem can download them. The modem will still
- : work with the 386, things just won't be as fast as if the modem was hooked
- : up to a better computer.
-
- Eric, pay closer attention...
-
- Download speed is not affected by the processing of JPEG's and it is
- extremely rare that a 386 would be so heavily tasked that it couldn't
- maintain a decent throughput. I ran a 2 node BBS with a 386dx33 and saw
- *no* degradation in throughput even when both nodes were transferring
- files and this was under DesqView. I'd even pop open a 3rd window and
- process files for the filelists (moving files between partitions, writing
- to files, sorting files, etc.) without affecting throughput.
-
- Now, with someone attempting multiple tasks in Windows, then I'd say
- you'd have a case but that is Windows causing the problem, not the CPU's
- weakness.
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