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- G E T T I N G T H E M O S T O U T O F Y O U R B B S T I M E !!
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- Mike Ratledge, CDP, CSP - SysOp of East Bay X-Change TCommNet 803/723-6430
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- Relative efficiency of various file transfer
- protocols used on Bulletin Board Systems
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- File Transfer Performance: XMODEM CRC-XMOD YMODEM ZMODEM YMODEM-G
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- Protocol Overhead Characters 4803 4803 603 3600 503
- Transfer Protocol Round Trips 803 803 103 5 5
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- (direct) Trip Time ... at 40ms 32.12s 16.06s 4.12s 0.2s 0.2s
- (direct) Transfer Time at 40ms 925s 925s 862s 883s 857s
- (netwrk) Trip Time ... at 5s 4015s 2007s 515s 25s 25s
- (netwrk) Transfer Time at 5s 5761s 2880s 1373s 918s 882s
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- Relative Efficiency: 40% 60% 80% 90% 95%
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- Beleive it or Not! "Kermit" is below even X-Modem with about a 30% relative
- efficiency... You can get over three times as much data over the phone line
- in the same amount of time using Z-Modem, and more than double the data if
- you've been using X-Modem!
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- Hardware Flow Control and Error-Correcting Modems:
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- NOTE: MNP (Microcom Network Protocol) modems have automatic error detection
- and correction and get a boost from using synchronous framing techinques and
- - under MNP 5 - Hoffman/Lempel-encoding (data compression) to achieve higher
- *effective* rates as follow: (20% boost under MNP 4, 66% under MNP 5)
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- Relative Efficiency: XMODEM CRC-XMOD YMODEM ZMODEM YMODEM-G
- With MNP Class 4 in effect 44% 66% 88% 108% 114%
- With MNP Class 5 in effect 53% 80% 106% 150% 160%
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- Also note that using any non-hardware flow-control protocol (only Z-Modem &
- G-ymodem support it) will actually produce less of an improvement than shown.
- You cannot use Ymodem-G unless you have a *MODEM* that corrects transmission
- error automatically without program intervention - this is *NOT* software!!!
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- NOTE: Ymodem-G is available only between MNP modems - Do NOT use otherwise!!
- You may (and should!) use Z-Modem for any and all file transfers...