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- From: pcp@inforamp.net (Christopher Parke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART or ESP ??
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:14:34 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- I've used the drivers since they came out and have no
- problem though I can't say they give better performance
- than using just the UART since the modem will only go
- 115200kbs in any case.
-
-
-
-
- In article <312fcc79.13850028@204.248.93.100>,
- shappel@accessus.net says...
- >
- >jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) wrote:
- >
- >>In comp.dcom.modems article
- <DMq53E.2L@giskard.demon.co.uk>, dale@giskard.demon
- >.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth) wrote:
- >>:Hi,
- >>:
- >>:Jim Louvau (jim@aisbbs.com) wrote:
- >>:
- >>:[ Material cut becuase its too wide - basically said
- that the ESP reduces
- >>: the load on the CPU. ]
- >>:
- >>:: Spending $80 - $100 (dual port ESP II) vs. $40 - $60
- for a braindead 16550
- >>:: card, is a very good deal.
- >>:
- >>:Of course, the chances are you'll see no benefit over a
- 16550 card
- >>:(the CPU load dealing with serial comms is trivial), but
- if you want
- >>:to spend the extra $50 on something which gives you no
- noticable
- >>:benefit thats up to you. :-)
- >>
- >>Jim,
- >>
- >>Do you have any more info on the ESP II? (source,
- pricing?) I've checked
- >>Ingram and others and can't find it. I can only find
- references to the
- >>single port version...
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>
- >>... Joe
- >>
- >>---------------------------------------------------------
- ----------------------
- >>Joe Greco - Systems Administrator
- jgreco@ns.sol.net
- >>Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
- 414/546-7968
- >
- >
- >Beware of the ESP using TCP/IP DUN in Windows 95. The ESP
- works fine as a 16550
- >UART (Windows 95 driver), but using the drivers Hayes put
- out for Windows 95
- >causes problems communicating with the stack every so
- often. The only solution
- >was to restart Windows. Even though the ESP port
- communicating with the modem,
- >the TCP/IP stack would lose 'connect' randomly, no
- overruns were detected. I
- >went back and forth 5 times with the same results
- everytime. Though it sometime
- >would 'appear' for a hour being connected, it sometime
- only took 5 minutes. I
- >have not had any problems with this using Windows 95
- standard drivers. But I
- >believe the the ESP will have it's place with new drivers.
- When I used the ESP
- >driver, I had better system performance, not much, but
- noticable on a 486/66
- >w/32Meg.
- >
- >
- >Scott
- >shappel@accessus.net
- >
- >http://www.accessus.net/~shappel/welcome.html
-
- --
- --
- Best Regards
- PCP
- " Why is there something rather than nothing? "
-
-