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- From: Ben E. Colley <tpmaint@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Re: How to increase the download speed in Kermit by high speed
- modem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.045515.26378@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- References: <25JUL199219133907@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 04:55:15 GMT
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- In article <25JUL199219133907@oregon.uoregon.edu> Chun-Ching Yang,
- ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
- >I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data
- from
- >the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe
- to my
- >Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each TWO
- seconds. If
- >the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
- >1,440 in ONE second. (Is that right?)
- >I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that
- the
- >speed can reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How
- come?
- >
- >Can anyone help me solve this problem?
-
- A couple of things to remember and/or try.
-
- 1) The modem speed is in bits per second, Kermit reports throughput in
- bytes, so you actual speed was 560*8/2 bits per second. Agreedly not
- good enuf.
- 2) Check your upload and download packet sizes. *Don't* take the
- defaults. While you don't mention what version of Kermit you are using,
- for the Mac, I seem to recall 94 bytes as the default packet size. I
- suspect this has to do with old 1200 bps modems (94 bytes*8 + start and
- stop bit per byte = 94*8+94*2=940 bits which is 3/4 seconds data time on
- the wire at 1200 bps). Anyway, boot your upload and download packets up
- to about 1K (I think 1016 is all MacKermit will permit). This will cut
- *WAY* down on the chatting back and forth in support of the protocol.
- 3) Also remember to factor in the start and stop bits on any calculation.
- 1 start bit and 1 stop bit per data byte transferred in asynchronous
- mode is a significant overhead.
- Ben
-