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- From: eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28880 bps with a 386 ???
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 23:56:48 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-1002962356480001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- References: <4fce3s$ku8@ftp.univie.ac.at> <4ff4jj$kli@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4fg1km$1f8@zippy.cais.net> <4fghfv$3v8@seminole.gate.net>
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- 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.
-