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- From: jiangwu@sickdog.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jiang Wu)
- Subject: Re: Problems with ZTERM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.021301.11327@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan23.193046.10595@cs.rit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:13:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.193046.10595@cs.rit.edu> mnc@cs.rit.edu (Marcus N Cannava) writes:
- >Hi there,
- >
- >I'm the proud new owner of a SupraFAXModem v.32bis, and wonder why I'm
- >getting such poor performance with zmodem transfers. I'm getting
- >efficiency rates of around 10-20%.. Perhaps a simple setting I'm
- >missing?
- >
- >I'm using Zterm 0.9, on a Mac IIsi, with the modem mentioned above.
- >The connections are reliably connecting at 57,600 baud (14.4 with
- >compression).
- >
-
- 10%-20% efficient rate is not an indication of poor performance. The
- efficiency rating is based on the theoretically maximum transfer rate of
- 57,600 baud. You can sometimes achive this rate when transfering data that
- respond extremely well to compression used in the modem. If you are
- transfering data that is already compressed such as in .sea or .sit format,
- your modem can not do anymore compression on these file. Therefore,
- transfer rate for these files will be close to the "real" transfer rate of
- 14,400 baud if that is the "real" rate you are connected.
-
- From my experience, I never got anything near the max transfer rate even
- when transfering uncompressed data. I use a 9600 baud connection with
- compression. When transfering compressed data, I usually get ~1000 cps.
- When transfering uncompressed data, I usually get ~1400 - 1600 cps. This
- translate to some efficient rating depends on which max baud rate (19600,
- 38400, or 59600 baud) I set in the communication program. Therefore,
- instead of looking at the efficient rate, find out the charater per second
- (cps) rate.
-
- >Thanks, in advance..
- >\marc
- >--
-
- -- Jiang Wu
- jiangwu@postgres.berkeley.edu
-