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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is USR going to support 42bis+ on future courier upgrades?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:19:10 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- doug haire (dhaire@gate.net) writes:
- > 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
-
- Try running bi-dirrection transfer with both DTEs set to 115.2kbps
- and apair of modems using the Rockwell controller. You'll find that they
- do tend to have problems keeping up.
-
- > 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.
-
- It isn't so much a case of what operating system you're using, but
- what sort of software is talking to you're com port. Dos doesn't come
- with any useful com drivers, so everyone writes their own, to varying
- degrees of success. A really well writing DOS com driver can run at up to
- 115.2kbps with a 16450 UART without getting any errors. Of course, well
- writing DOS com software can be kinda rare. Linux, on the other hand,
- does use a com driver (like just about every other OS out there). Again
- though, overruns may occure with one com driver and not the other.
-
- > When the common computer software platform is capable of handling 115200
- > properly perhaps we can then consider the 230k UART speed.
-
- Software IS capable of 115.2 speeds now. In fact, with the right
- hardware it's capable of MUCH higher DTE speeds then that (eg Hayes ESP
- cards will run at up to 900kbps or so without overruns). The problem is
- that 16550 UARTs can't really go faster then 115.2kbps. Both 16650s and
- 16750s can, and both of those chips have on board flow control, which will
- completely eliminate com overruns.
-
- Anthony
-
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