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- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 9600 D/L U/L With Telix Info needed: Help Please!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.112435.29643@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 11:24:35 GMT
- References: <thompson.713632224@kiyotaki.econ.umn.edu>
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- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
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- thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson) writes:
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- : Since GIF and ZIP files are already compressed, your V.42bis
- : compression cannot make them smaller, and may actually make them
- : larger. Thus the best throughput that you can expect is 9600 baud
- : with these files, even though your computer - modem connection is at
- : 38.4. Given this, I think that 900+ CPS is about as good as you can
- : expect. You might get slightly faster CPS by turning modem
- : compression off when moving precompressed files around.
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- MNP5 could make it larger, not V42bis. The difference is
- that V42bis compresses a packet, compares it to the size of
- the uncompressed packet, and sends the smaller, hence no
- loss of speed on precompressed files.
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