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- From: jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28880 bps with a 386 ???
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 16:57:54 GMT
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- In article <4ff4jj$kli@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
- BJSpace@ImperialEarth.com (B.E.Johnson) wrote:
- >In article <4fce3s$ku8@ftp.univie.ac.at>,
- > a9300343@unet.univie.ac.at (Ralph Staudigl) wrote:
- >>Can anyoen tell me if it ist possible to reach 28800 bps with a 386
- >>processor ???
- >>A friend of mine told me that it would be impossible.
- >>
- >>Ralph
- >>
- >
- >Mine did without problem. As long as you get the port parameters set
- correctly
- >it should handle the traffic well. I actually had a bit of trouble when
- moving
- >up to a P5, which one would think would take the 386 by storm. Turned out to
- >be a marginal I/O chip on the MB combined with disk access methods.
- >
-
-
- Here's another good question:
-
- Lets say you have the same modem on a pentium and on a 386sx. Both pc's have
- 16550 serial ports and same operating systems. Should the download time
- (using a windows program like WSFTP) on the pentium be faster than the 386sx?
- I'm sure the answer is yes, but i'm not sure how much faster (percentage
- wise) and why, other than the fact that whole system (bus, hard disk, video
- card etc.) is faster. I know that using netscape on both of these pc's would
- show a big difference, just because of the fast pentium's handling of
- graphics.
-