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- From: lam836@cucs18.cs.cuhk.hk (Lam Lai Yin Savio)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: V.42bis - on 2400 baud
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.015535.3741@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 01:55:35 GMT
- References: <amigo.714702563@milton> <1992Aug28.140938.9352@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >amigo@milton.u.washington.edu (The Friend) writes:
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- >> Few questions about V.42bis 2400 baud modems... firstoff, whats
- >>the typical CPS rate on them with zip & gif files? I figure maybe 50%
- >>improvement, but its rough-guessing, you only get true 9600 baud output if
- >>its straight text files.
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- >Try more like 1-5%. V.42 *can't* compress files that are already compressed.
- >Neither can MNP5, but at least V.42 is smart enough to see that it'll be
- >making the file *bigger*, and quit trying.
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- >GIF and ZIP files are essentially uncompressable. Your modem *certainly*
- >doesn't have the horsepower to do it. *Never* count on V.42 or MNP making
- >a significant difference in transmission time.
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- >With a 9600 bps modem and V.42, the highest xfer rate I've seen was
- >12000 bps.
- >--
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- I am using GVC 2400 v.42bis/MNP5, the xfer rate for GIF, ZIP,
- ARJ, LZH ... is 230cps w/o v.42bis/MNP5 (using zmodem), and with
- v.42bis/MNP5, it becomes 270cps.
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- Hope this helps.
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- - Savio Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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