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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is USR going to support 42bis+ on future courier upgrades?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 10:51:11 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- RobertN141 (robertn141@aol.com) wrote:
- : I find this information very interesting. My company manufactures the
- : AMQUEST HyperModem V.34. This product will support up to 230,000 BPS
- : throughput and has a enhanced microcontroller architecture to better
- : compress
- : and decompress data. The fundamental problem with many modems is that
- : they are all rated 28.8 V.34 115,200 max. However, they lack the
- : horsepower
- : to handle above 88,000 bps throughput. Since in the past many people were
-
- More hype.
-
- Listen, first of all, I'd say V.34 modems (and even V.32bis modems) are
- fully capable of handling a throughput speed above 88k. In fact, I know
- this is true. Second, I'd like to point out that comm overruns are a
- fault that lies with the operating system software of the CPU. I recently
- tested this on a comparison with a large file and two different platforms
- (MS-DOS and Linux) on the same CPU. The sender was a 486dx4/100 CPU running
- MS-DOS and using a USR Courier V.34 v.everything. The receiver was a
- 486sx33 with another Courier (same model) running linux and MS-DOS
- (separate partitions, dual boot). Modems were connected via an 8 ft
- telephone cable and synched at 33,600 bps with V.42 LAPM and V.42bis
- compression.
-
- The linux platform received the file with no errors, no comm overruns, no
- garbled subpackets, no problems.
-
- The MS-DOS platform received constant errors such as comm overruns and
- garbled subpackets.
-
- I also ran the tests using *no* modems (null modem cable connection at
- 115200 connection rate). The MS-DOS to MS-DOS connection was completely
- unusable with way too many errors at the receiver. The MS-DOS to linux
- connection was stable and never showed an error.
-
- When the common computer software platform is capable of handling 115200
- properly perhaps we can then consider the 230k UART speed.
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