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- Path: in1.uu.net!zdc!szdc!news
- From: an514295@anon.penet.fi (RadioMan)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:00:11 GMT
- Organization: Zippo
- Message-ID: <317237dc.836868@snews.zippo.com>
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- estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry) wrote:
-
- >: Not really! If people would start demanding (and using) 'cached serial
- >:ports' they would discover even 14.4's are much faster than they realize. To
- >:me this increasing of the Analog Rate is a marketing ploy.
-
- What the hell is a "cached serial port"? FIFO buffers are commonly used
- to cache data, but the fact remains that a 28.8 modem, which can transfer
- data at 3000-3300 cps, IS FASTER than a 14.4 modem, which transfers data at
- 1400-1600 cps. "Cacheing" data means little when the modem itself won't
- move it in and out of your computer faster.
-
- Think of it like a water pipe. A larger diameter pipe is capable of
- transfering the same amount of water (data) much faster than a smaller pipe
- can. Adding a water holding tank (cache) will not improve the actual
- transfer rate through the system.
-
- I suspect you have never used a 28.8 modem or this conversation would not
- be occuring.
-
-