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- Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!pdn!palan!sherpa!rac
- From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
- Subject: Re: WorldBlazer blazes along at 219cps
- Organization: Personal System Computing :-) Gulfport, FL
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:15:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.161506.24776@sherpa.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug12.203523.13511@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.203523.13511@ecst.csuchico.edu>, warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug12.064259.15979@news.columbia.edu> Imran Anwar writes:
- >
- > --> I too was wondering what the max throughput from Worldblazers has been?
- >
- > Somebody ought to know that I had to work semi-hard at getting 219 cps out
- > of my worldblazer... of course, this was at 2400 bps vs a vanilla modem. (:
- >
- > On a Sun3 that I use, I managed to get ~1600 cps receive and ~950 cps
- > transmit, but I *know* where the bottleneck is there. For transmitting, I
- > get cut down by flow control problems between the worldblazer and terminal
- > server on the other side and for everything else it's just the Sun's serial
- > ports (max out at 19200 bps transmit, 9600 bps receive, etc). I simply
- > lacked the ponies to do much better.
- >
- > People who like fast modems beware... I'm fairly unimpressed with the
- > serial ports and drivers people stick on UNIX workstations.
- >
- > --
- > John Kennedy/KC6RCK/warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu "IBM, You BM, We All BM for IBM!"
-
-
- From the one site I connect with that has a WorldBlazer, I average
- 2020cps (receive) using uucp g with spoofing turned on. Using uucp
- f with spoofing off, I average 2200cps. This on a standard COM2 port
- with 16550 UART.
-
- --
- Roger Cornelius rac@sherpa.UUCP ...!uunet!sherpa!rac
-