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- From: sewilco@fieldday.mn.org (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: I've Had It With Supra 28.8. It's a piece of shit.
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 19:54:02 -0600
- Organization: self
- Message-ID: <4cfbvq$ukn@fieldday.mn.org>
- References: <49kmbp$3hn@news.mel.aone.net.au> <jammin-2712951512190001@jammin.vip.best.com> <g <30e62da1.4090094@news.fishnet.net>
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- >>Miller's advice is almost verbatim from the Supra manual. When sending
- >>packed data or hex files, there is no advantage to compression, just the
- >>disadvantage of the overhead. Most files on the internet are either
- >>packed and/or hex.
-
- I'm sure I also saw that in the Supra manual someplace and can't find it now.
-
- >After writing my own home page I have to wonder about that. The HTML
- >files are ascii based, and there are alot of txt files and such, a
- >well written V.42bis will provide more of a gain than a loss, even
- >with the occasional sampling of the data flow to see if it can be
- >compressed.
-
- And unless I'm doing something wrong, with modem compression enabled I am
- also often seeing PPP transfer rates faster than the modem speed. For
- HTML and other non-compressed streams, of course.
- --
- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@fieldday.mn.org
- Laws are society's common sense, written down for the stupid.
- The stupid refuse to read. Their lawyers read to them.
-