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- From: grimes@netcom.com (George Grimes)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: How to increase transfer speed in Kermit
- Message-ID: <2tmm!ar.grimes@netcom.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:01:02 GMT
- References: <25JUL199219273587@oregon.uoregon.edu> <1992Jul28.022121.2285@snuffy.dracut.ma.us>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <1992Jul28.022121.2285@snuffy.dracut.ma.us> bob@snuffy.dracut.ma.us (Bob Smith) writes:
- >ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang) 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?
- >
- >The problem is kermit. I'm not versed in the specifics of the problem,
- >but something to do with kermits smallish packet size. I vaguely remember
- >someone trying to set a larger packet size with some success, but not all
- >kermits allow that... My suggestion would be to use something else...
- >if it's available...
- >
- My suggestion would be to use the latest version of Kermit. Old versions
- had very small packets. The newer versions support up to 8K byte packets
- and they work much faster.
-
- George
-