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- On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Geoffrey Welsh wrote:
-
- > Unfortunately not. V.42bis _allows_ a transmitter to switch compression on
- > and off at any time, but no modem builder in their right mind compresses a
- > packet and then sends the shorter of the compressed and uncompressed version
- > because the added latency of not transmitting the data until a packet has been
- > formed and compressed would be a definite disadvantage.
-
- What about the buffer in the modem? Most packets sit in the buffer
- while waiting for the ones before them to be sent through the phone
- line. I didn't know that the packet *could* be sent before the modem was
- done compressing it. Why can't the modem decide whether or not to send
- the packet compressed *while its in the buffer* before its time for the
- packet to be sent?
-