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- From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
- Subject: Re: NeXT/Supra modem performance question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.072120.17438@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:21:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.180909.9732@augustana.ab.ca> bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca writes:
- >In addition to larger packets, do a "set win 7" or higher to engage sliding
- >windows (it is implemented in the VMS version of C-Kermit 5A, so I assume
- >it must be in various Un*x versions). That made the most difference to
- >throughput here. On text files I've had throughput of >1500 cps between a
- >MicroVax whose DTE speed is no faster than 19,200 baud and an MS-Dos
- >machine, both using Supras at 14,400 baud and with V.42bis operating. Not
- >as good as sz, but not bad either.
-
- Set win 7 caused packet length to drop from the max of 9024 to
- 1289. This caused throughput to drop even more. On a certain file, it
- was about 900cps at a packet length of 9024, and about 600cps with set
- win 7. With sz, it was about 1500cps. (v.32bis/v.42bis)
- All I know is that with zmodem, the RD light on my modem is on
- continuously until the end of the file or an error. With xmodem and
- kermit, every so often (depending on packet length), the RD light goes
- off, and the SD light goes on briefly. This "turn-around" is what's
- killing the throughput. If sliding-windows streams the transfer as sz
- does, then how do you enable it? Because set win 7 didn't for me. It
- just shortened the time between the (agonizingly slow) pauses.
- I'm running C-Kermit 5A-170 locally, and 4E-070 is installed on
- the remote machine. Are these versions too outdated?
-
- Alex
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