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- From: john.ohrt@synapse.org (John Ohrt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: 386SX-16 succeeds in high-speed download
- Message-ID: <12836.2403.uupcb@synapse.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 11:15:00 GMT
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- Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
- Reply-To: john.ohrt@synapse.org (John Ohrt)
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- From: john.ohrt@synapse.org
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- RO>Showing total disregard for conventional net.wisdom, on this date a
- RO>lowly 386SX-16 clone has successfully completed a 500KB data transfer
- RO>at 9600 bps using a Digicom Scout Plus internal modem and the Windows
- RO>Terminal program. The transfer completed with ZERO retries using the
- RO>XMODEM-CRC protocol with 1K blocksize. Measured average throughput
- RO>was 744 cps, or 77% of the theoretical limit of the async channel.
- RO>(The channel imposes a 2-bit overhead on each byte, so the useful
- RO>bandwidth is 7680 bps or 960 cps.)
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- You shouldn't be astonished. I routinely exceed 1100 cps using a 286/12
- with an ATI 9600 etc/e running in v.32/v.42bis on 1+ Mbyte files, with 0
- retries. And that's on .zip files. On .txt, you can exceed 2000 cps. And
- bi-directionally 1050 cps *each* way on .zip.
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- Get HSLink. It really works. Full-duplex and 4Kbyte block size and 32
- bit CRC were used to obtain above figures. You don't need a 16550 with
- HSLink, but the 286/12 will ocassionally drop characters in terminal
- mode if you don't have 16550 buffering. I lived without it for a year.
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- Note v.42bis forces synchronous transfer transparently to HSLink to
- achieve a bandwidth of 9600 bps ( for v.32 ) less overhead *each* way.
- It also is smart enough to compress data only when advantageous.
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- Real computers can exceed 1135 cps routinely.
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- Real >= 386DX-25, IMHO.
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- If you lack co-operative sources with HSLink, the v.32/v.42bis stunt
- will also work with any other protocols that I have tried.
-
- Please don't tell me how fast v.32bis/v.42bis is...I'm trying to save
- for a real computer!
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- John Ohrt Internet: john.ohrt@synapse.org
- engineer Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Hobbies: image processing, lunar/planetary astronomy
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