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- From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
- Subject: V.42bis effectiveness (was Re: V.42bis - on 2400 baud)
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- References: <amigo.714702563@milton> <1992Aug28.140938.9352@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <KEN.92Aug28212916@stthomas.Cayman.COM>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:39:35 GMT
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- I have done quite extensive benchmarking on v.32bis/v.42bis transfers.
- I have a Sun 4/25 at home, and an identical one at work. The two
- are interconnected via dial-on-demand PPP over v.32bis/v.42bis.
- Any sort of compressed file routinely gets 1.7 kbps. An uncompressed
- executable gets about 2.2 kbps. Things like /usr/dict/words get
- 3.1 kbps or even better on a good day. Stupid files, like big
- blocks of 0s get 3.7 kbps (38400 bps seral ports).
-
- I don't think v.42bis is probably all that helpfull for "traditional"
- uses, which amount to reading text interactively or transfering
- compressed files (typical BBS usage), but for IP linking, it's
- great, since traditional IP services for the most part are uncompressed
- (the one big exception is typical use of ftp, but smtp, nntp... all of
- those are plain ASCII for the most part). And even with VJ header compression,
- there are some small redundancies that v.42bis can wiggle out.
-
- Imagine an nntp session... All of the traffic in one direction is
- going to be made of the "Ok" "Thanks" or "Got it" responses (and
- the "hello" and "goodbye", which occur only once). All the traffic
- in the other direction is going to be "IHAVE <.*@.*>", and
- ASCII messages with at least partially predictable header text.
- V.42bis shouldn't have any trouble squishing all that stuff pretty
- well.
-
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