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- From: James Darrell Watkins <jwatkins@fay.infi.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Can't download big zipped files with my 28k8 ... I'm getting bad CRC error ... how can I solv this problem?
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:09:22 -0500
- Organization: US Army
- Message-ID: <31257112.4400@fay.infi.net>
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- Your Si Ballenger wrote:
- >
- > fsnijder@elektron.et.tudelft.nl (Fred) wrote:
- >
- > >Can't download big zipped files with my 28k8 ...
- > >I'm getting bad CRC error ...
- > >how can I solv this problem?
- >
- > >Fred.
- >
- > If you have your modem speed set really high, try reducing it to
- > 38.4k.computer communications software has the CRC checksum set to 8-bit. Move
- the setting to 32-bit. 28.8 modems are running checksum striping schemes
- to increase throughput, therefore bits 29,30,31,32 of a gulp comtain the
- CRC parity feeds as opposed to 8-bit which stripped bits 8,16,24,32.
-