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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: 128 internet modem request
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 15:02:20 -0500
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- In article <4da6vb$ijp@tiger.utw.com>, pbeast@stellar.comnet.com (The
- Perry-beast) writes:
-
- > If you do happen to exceed 38.4Kbps throughput,
- >hardware flow control will kick in, and your modem will pause while your
- >computer catches up.
- >
-
- That's what I wanted to know. Since this conversation began, I have been
- observing cps rates on file transfers, and you're right, the compression
- doesn't get as high as I thought, though I wasn't downloading any text
- files. But what I was concerned about was whether or not the Swiftlink
- would tell the modem to hold it's horses if it tried to send data back to
- the computer faster than 38.4K, and you answered that.
-
- >I think what you might be getting at is that 38.4Kbps is not an even
- >multiple of 14.4Kbps? Well, it doesn't have to be. :)
-
- No, I knew that it doesn't have to be a multiple of the base rate, but I
- may have been too quick to believe that V.42bis or MNP-5 could provide 4X
- compression. I understand that 4X is an absolute maximum, under the right
- conditions, with a tailwind, and all that, but if by some chance I get
- transfer rates that exceed the Swiftlink's capabilities, I wanted to know
- if it was capable of the proper flow control.
-