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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28880 bps with a 386 ???
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 17:22:55 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- 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.
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