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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Question about Error Correction and Compression
- Message-ID: <DKyBBs.9vB@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4csame$orf@hermes.acs.unt.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.91.960109094146.3698E-100000@cpu3>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 05:59:52 GMT
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-
- Dirk Ohme (dohme@transtec.de) writes:
- >> If I could set my servers modems that way I wouldn't have to worry about
- >> each of 300 users properly configuring their modems, right?
- >
- > No, not absoultely. If a client modem is set to "reliable mode" and the
- > server does not offer MNP4/V42, there will be no connection. Only in
- > "auto reliable mode" the client modem establishs the non-ECed connection.
- >
- > But why disabling? I see no need for it, but arguments for enabling:
- > - there are lots of redundant data transmission which could be compressed
- > on-the-fly by MNP5 / V42bis
- > - therefore transmission speed could be increased
-
- In many applications the latency that is added by error control
- and data compression will slow things down significantly more then the
- loss in speed due to disabling error control and data compression. This
- is particularly true for modem games.
-
- > - most software offers soft- or hardware handshaking so data loss could
- > be prevented
- > - modems offer a inter-modem handshaking either by enabling passthrough
- > of software handshaking or via MNP/V42 protocol -> no data loss
-
- If you're using autobaud, there's not need for any significant
- amount of flow control anyway, and with error control and data compression
- turned off, you might as well use autobaud.
-
- > I think disabling of such features as EC and compression is a fall-back
- > to stoneage of modem techniques. There should be no timecritical software
- > anymore. Many modems offer FAX class 2 or 2.0 as alternative to
- > (timecritical) class 1.
-
- FAX Class 2 and 2.0 are still timing critical, it's just that the
- modem handles the timing. It should also be noted that hardly any modems
- out there offer FAX error control (Zyxel and Motorola are the only two
- that come to mind), so most of these Class 2 and Class 2.0 FAXmodems are
- just as timing critical as the above mentioned data connections.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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