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- From: jmpaden@mnsinc.com (j.m.paden)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Are Comm Overruns Normal?
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 02:50:04 GMT
- Organization: Monumental Network Systems
- Message-ID: <4h8cvo$qk4@news1.mnsinc.com>
- References: <31375B17.CD5@cris.com> <DnLnK4.Lys@world.std.com> <4h859i$i8r@news2.cais.com>
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- jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93) wrote:
-
- >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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- The usual answer has been:
- comxFIFO=1
- comxbuffer=1024
- comboosttime=8
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- Is there something about Win95 that would change this?
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