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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: 128 internet modem request
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 03:48:15 -0500
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- In article <4d69gd$4b8@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>, bogus (Mike Neus) writes:
-
- >What don't you understand about it? First off, the compression happens
- in
- >the modem, not the Swiftlink. Data comes from one machine, to the modem,
-
- >compressed and transmitted at 14.4K baud (or whatever), is de-compressed
- in
- >the other modem, and sent to the computer. The speed between the
- computer
- >and the modem needs to be faster than the modem to modem connect rate to
- take
- >
- >advantage of the speed increase offered by the modem to modem
- compression.
-
- I'm not going to argue about ideal compression rates, but I do download a
- lot, and I've seen bps rates approach 4X with compression. The point I
- was trying to make is this, since I wasn't clear before: If my modem
- connect speed is 14.4Kbps and I happen to be transferring data which DOES
- allow me to get a modem-to-computer speed of 57.6Kbps, what does the
- Swiftlink do with the data? Do I start losing data at that point? If so,
- wouldn't a maximum connect speed actually be 9600?
-