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- From: Bob Nixon <bigrex@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is USR going to support 42bis+ on future courier upgrades?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 17:26:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <4j4p6p$e39@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
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- X-Posted-By: bigrex@usr2.primenet.com
-
- It's not that I don't believe you, it's that you need to transfer real
- world "TEXT HTML or WORD" files at >115200. 10-11k/sec is no problem
- with a coreldraw border file with nothing in it but to transfer a text file at
- >11k/sec thats another story.
-
- doug haire <dhaire@gate.net> wrote:
- : Bob Nixon (bigrex@primenet.com) wrote:
- : : Not to sound sarcastic but your not really saying anything new. I use a
- : : corel.cdr file to check my providers DTE honesty factor and max or nearly
- : : max the 115200 dte. What I was eluding to, is there some new compression
- : : scheme that actually is able to compress "TEXT" files to twice as fast. Or
- : : say a text file that goes through at say 7800 or 2x 3900, hense 2:1
- : : compression. My question was is this new v.42bis+ standard capable of
- : : compressing at 4:1 vs 2:1 for speeds of 15600cps or roughtly 156000bps or
- : : greater. My guess is probably no as on the fly disk compression seldom
- : : exceeds say 2.5:1 compression ratio for text files. If the 8:1 potential
- : : was a reality that would really be a boost to v.34 modems. Win-95 and
- : : probably others OS's support dte's at the serial ports of up to 960000bps.
- : : Whether the current crop of 16550 uart's are up to the tast is yet another
- : : question.
-
- : First, let me explain that the 8-1 (or better) is certainly a reality
- : now. All you need to do is create a highly compressible file (or use one
- : of the modem manufacturer's super-compressible test files), make a
- : connection between two compatible modems with DTE rates of 115200 and DCE
- : rates down about 12000 or 9600, then transfer the file.
-
- : I've done it. I know the answer. Now, you do it and you'll know the
- : answer since you won't believe the rest of us.
-
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- Bob Nixon
- bigrex@primenet.com
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