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- From: sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas speak HTTP with an accent?
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- Date: 27 Mar 1996 11:32:04 -0700
- Organization: Rt66.COM, Public Internet Access in New Mexico
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- Dennis Grant (dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca) wrote:
- : EVERY time I try, the Amiga web browsers get the "packet a min" transfer
- : rate, while NS runs full speed. This includes tests where I will switch from
- : one to the other, back to back, as fast as I can - and the result is ALWAYS
- : the same.
-
- This is just a shot in the dark, but... are you running your Amiga browsers
- in a deeper screenmode than Shapeshifter? DMA bandwidth limits are a common
- problem for Amigas w/out graphics cards while trying to do fast serial comm.
-
- If you are using Holger Kruse's PPP.device, check pppstats and see if
- you are getting errors. Before I got my CV64, I was having almost exactly
- the same symptoms on my A3000 when I was on a 4 bitplane screen. The
- serial problems were causing PPP errors, and packets started coming in
- less frequently. Modem lights flashed less, and at first I thought it
- was a problem with my ISP.
-
- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- John Millington
-