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- From: doswald@xmission.com (David Oswald)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Vesa Local Bus and Modem
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:11:03 GMT
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- jbent@alcor.concordia.ca (john bentley) made the following comments:
-
- >jbent@odyssee.net (john bentley) wrote:
-
- >>I've got a 28,800 internal faxmodem and was wondering if it would be
- >>better to install it in one of the three local VESA bus slots I have
- >>on my motherboard. Will this increase the speed of the data transfer
- >>to the hard drive or does it make no differecne at at. Right now I
- >>have the card installed in a regualr ISA slot but wondered whether or
- >>not I should move the modem card to one of the VESA slots.
-
- >jbent@alcor.concordia.ca
-
- There's not going to be any difference. Why would there be? Let's do
- the math....
-
- Bus/IO Width Speed KB/Sec
- _____ _____ _____ ______
-
- Serial 1 bit 14 (max)
- PC/ISA 8bit 8MHz 7,812 (approx)
- ISA 16bit 8MHz 15,000 (approx)
- VLB 32bit 33MHz 128,000 (approx)
-
- These numbers aren't perfect... they don't take into consideration bus
- latency, wait states, bus overhead, etc. However, it is certainly the
- serial port that is the limiting factor here, not the bus that the
- port is plugged into. The other thing is that most internal modems
- are made on 8 bit cards (some are on 16 bit cards). Without those
- extra connectors found on VLB cards there's no reason to waste one of
- the VLB slots on the card.
-
- An other thing to consider is that parallel ports are usually
- connected to the PC's board via an ISA slot, or at least through the
- ISA bus. Parallel ports are capable of transfers of over 2mb/sec
- (max) and manufacturers still put them on the ISA bus. Why would a
- modem that is capable of around 3k/sec benefit from a faster bus?
-
-
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- David Oswald ... doswald@xmission.com ... http://www.xmission.com/~doswald
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