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- From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: V.42bis/LAP-M questions
- Message-ID: <C0q4yy.AwA@panix.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:40:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.213939.11393@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 31
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- In <1993Jan5.213939.11393@uts.uni-c.dk> povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) writes:
-
- >How come that I sometimes have to get retries from Z-modem when
- >using a modem with MNP-5 or V.42bis/LAP-M ? Both include error
- >correction, and I thought that would ensure that all packages
- >would be transfered as sent. I also thought that the RE or TE
- >messages I see on very noisy lines on my Supra V.32bis would
- >mean that the modems resent the packages.
-
- Well, imagine a lost bit either (1) between your computer and your
- modem or (2) at the other end, between their modem and their computer.
- No amount of v.42 or MNP4 in hardware will fix that. I got two
- retried zmodem packets the other day downloading from Compuserve.
- Pretty scary but that's just about the only explanation.
-
- >So, is error correction in modems good ? Or is it something
- >that helps a little on quality ?
-
- I guess the other possiblity is a bit or two wrong on the phone
- line, in a way that happens to fool the CRC check that V.42 does.
- Guess it would have to be more than one bit. And the odds of it
- happening for any one packet are lower than one in a million or
- so.
-
- Carl Oppedahl
-
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