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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: 25 Mar 1996 20:39:12 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Jim White (jimwhite@cent.com) wrote:
- : dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- :
- : >Bob Nixon (bigrex@primenet.com) wrote:
- : >: I'm wondering if USR will come up with a V.42bis+(230,000 dte 8:1
- : >: compression) on the couriers? Is this just a sales gimmick? Can you
- : >: actually get twice the compression on say text files 2.5:1 to say 5:1? If
- : >: this is possible it would seem with V.34+ and V.42bis+ and given the fact
- : >: that most current ISDN setup's don't support compression it could give
- : >: Analog modems a more competitive edge against ISDN. Text throughputs in
- : >: the 13 to 20k bytes/sec would be great if this isn't just a smoke screen.
- : >
- : >If one had the need to send highly compressible files, it would be more
- : >advantageous to pre-compress them before sending. On some test files that
- : >I have run (ones that PKZIP can compress at 10 to 1), I have hit the
- : >upper limit of 115200 (actually a rate of about 11.3kcps). On "real
- : >world" files, I have never hit this mark.
- : >
- : >In other words, it would simply be for the advertising advantage to go to
- : >230k port speed.
- : >
- :
- : that's true if you're only interested in file transfers..... but, for
- : instance, Web browsing, for instance, would benefeit.... even though
- : the content's "compressability" is variable, any improvement is an
- : improvemnet...
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- I disagree with your premise and have stated why in another post.
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