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I have two PC's networked with two Unix workstations via ethernet, using
tcp-ip as the only network protocol. One of the PC's runs QVT/Net via a
packet driver shim under Win 3.1, the other PC runs QVT/Net on top of
the Trumpet Winsock under W4W 3.11.  I am getting a decent transfer
rate (~230 KB/Sec) FTPing between the PC's (client) and workstations
(server).  However, when I set up one of the PC's (QVT/Net-Trumpet-W4W
3.11) as a QVT/Net FTP server for PC-to-PC transfer, the data transfer rate
slows to a crawl, about 2 KB/Sec.  Any ideas or suggestions will be
appreciated.

David


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From [e-mail] Wed Mar  9 17:57:54 1994
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Subject: Re: Chameleon Problem ... the future of DOS/Win TCP/IP?

Ed wrote:
Various people say they have this or that problem with Chameleon:
...
]Check your modem and protocol configs.  I've used Chameleon for a couple
]years and, while I agree that NewtNews needs major work (hear that, Warren?)
]the basic product is pretty solid.  I email every day with no problem.
]...
]Basically, though, it's a great product.  If you are running MS/Win,
]there isn't anything out there that comes close.
]George S. Chapman
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]To me, this use of lower memory is Chameleon's
]biggest fault. The first 1MB is a critical Windows resource. When it is
]gone, you start getting "not enough memory to run application" even
]though you have lots of extended memory and lots of system resources.
][e-mail] (Charles Edwards)
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Their customer support seems to be buried, perhaps from too much business.
My call was returned within 24 hours, but of course I was away from the
phone. Not much help there. Email queries are not answered.

I will not recommend Chameleon to people at my company until the
customer service picture improves dramatically and it is clear that the
software will be upgraded in a timely manner.
Ed Batutis
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<me>:

I think Chameleon has an _OK_ product.  I run PC-X all day and
don't get crashes.  However, a couple of sessions with Eudora or
WinTrumpet or WS_FTP will bring it down every time.  A fix to
one problem I was having with Windows tape backups was to reduce
the size of NFS blocks from 8192 to 1024.  No thanks -- I'll
stick to DOS backups for now.

I won't recommend any TSR- or DLL-based TCP/IP stack that
doesn't lead to a VxD implementation.  See this week's PCWEEK
for an excellent summary of Frontier's VxD thingy.  Among other
things, a proper VxD stack should use 0K of lower memory, should
be faster than DLLs, has 32-bit code, works in a DOS window, and
will result in reduced network loads versus DLL-based setups.
Sounds great!

<i'm not involved in any way with Frontier, tho I'll gladly
 serve as a tester for them!>


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From [e-mail] Wed Mar  9 19:50:53 1994
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Subject: Re: Mosaic 2.0a1 freezing with 'Sending Command..'

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Patrick and Sharon Reid) writes:
>In article <2la79i$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter Miles) writes:
>>I'm using Mosaic v2.0a1 with the Netmanage Chameleon Winsock (v3.11).
>>Every other Winsock application works perfectly suggesting that the Winsock
>>end of things is OK. However, Mosaic often freezes when retrieving html or
>>data with 'sending command...'.

>I haven't seen anything like this.  I use Windows Mosaic 2.0a1 with the
>Trumpet Winsock 1.0 Rev B beta 2.


I'm using Trumpet Winsock 1 and odi drivers.  Mosaic 2a2 gives GPF's in
user.exe whenever I try to access a specific molecular biology database
site  or try to load large files from a gopher.  It works on other
occasions.  It makes a fine gopher client, for instance.  I have a very
hard time believing that it has anything to do with my system or setup
because all other Windows net apps I've tried work fine.  I've heard from
one other odi user who seems to be having similar problems.



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Subject: Re: Chameleon memory management


..
> for lower memory. Chameleon allocates large blocks of memory in the
> first 1MB. When that area is exhausted, Telnet gives the divide by 0
> error. You should try to have as much conventional memory as possible
> available before starting Windows....etc
Charles:
Since this is the case, would it make sense to have an include
statement in EMM386 for B000-BFFF since I have a VGA monitor? According
to my books this area is reserved for MDA, CGA, EGA and VGA text.
I, like so many others, keep getting GPF's from MAIL.EXE. Do you see
a connection with GPF's and the way Chameleon handles lower memory?
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Norbert Hoffmann
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
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