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- From: jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93)
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- Subject: Re: Are Comm Overruns Normal?
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 00:38:10 GMT
- Organization: organized
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- In article <DnLnK4.Lys@world.std.com>, geh@world.std.com says...
- >
- >Jomo (jbrandt@cris.com) wrote:
- >: I was wondering if comm overruns were a fact of life? I thought I had
- >: wipped my comm problems by installing wfxcomm.drv (I've got a P90, WFWG
- >: 3.11 and a USR Sportster 28800).
- >
- >: I have reduced the amount of overruns to minimal (20 overruns reported by
- >: Trumpet Winsock tracer after 3.5 hours online - heavy use). Does it get
- >: any better? I'm tempted to think that there are folks out there who
- >: don't ever get overruns. I know I've got a 16550, but I'm only running
- >: 57,600 at the serial port and overruns persist, albeit infrequently.
- >: Should I bother trying to hunt this one down any further?
- >
- >: Jomo
- >
- >I've just finished the testing of USR Sportster 28800, Windows 3.1,
- >UART 16C550 from BOCA Research. Had intermittent overruns till I've put
- >the following settings into WINDOWS system.ini:
- >
- >(386Enh section)
- >
- >com1buffer = 16384
- >com1fifo = 1
- >comboosttime = 10
- >
- >Then everything worked just fine, even with a serial port speed
- >at 115K. Probably WFWg requires a similar adjustment (I don't have WFWg
- >installed on my PC, so I can't tell).
- >
- >Greg Hersh
-
- That com1buffer shown above doesn't look right. Is that a typo? Isn't that saying "use 16meg
- of memory for a buffer" ?
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