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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: faster than 28.8
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 10:53:15 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4ffqlb$19c4@hopi.gate.net>
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- John White (jwhite@fishnet.net) wrote:
- : doug haire wrote:
- : > Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- : > : 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.
- : >
- : > Why do you continue to post this absolutely false information? If the
- : > Couriers at your location can't, it's because you have them configured
- : > improperly. If you are talking about the Couriers at your ISP then it's
- : > likely the ISP has them configured improperly or their end is set at less
- : > than 115200 or they have machine overhead that's limiting the transfer rate.
- : > But your claim that Couriers can't do this is blatantly false and has
- : > been shown to be false several times. Get over it!
- : >
- : > Let's see the data. I have asked for this before and I am asking again.
- : > This is totally bogus.
- : >
- : > Wrong again and shown wrong by me with data to back it up. Any data from
- : > you? Nope.
- : >
- : > --
- : > "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- : > [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
-
- : Anyone can post nonsense data to back up anything they want. I have
- : tried for several weeks now to verify yours but I just cannot. Are you
- : using some special files provided to you from USR. Using common files
- : that the average user will be using I can't obtain the level of
- : performance your data shows. I am NOT going to list some nerdy table of
- : my results though. So just go ahead and WHINE ABOUT IT. And don't forget
- : to add the Eisenhower line.
-
- I have posted my data several times. Others have posted similar data.
- You, however, haven't done anything at all. The files I used were from
- USR and also from Eric Shaw. Eric also used the USR files in some tests
- where he finally posted data. Our results differ significantly. The
- problem with his data appears to lie with his testing method.
-
- Read it and scratch your head...
-
-