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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: HELP!!!
- Message-ID: <68979@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 21:56:24 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov3.061354.21285@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
- <1992Nov3.152138.19585@rtsg.mot.com>
- <1992Nov4.032417.4001@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
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- >In article <1992Nov3.152138.19585@rtsg.mot.com> king@rtsg.mot.com writes:
- >>cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) publicly declared:
- >>>I've JR-Comm v1.02, USR 16.8k modem, A500 + AdSpeed, 1.3 WB.
- >>>The question is how can I maximize the transfer rate? I always get 1600+
- >>>cps with LHA or DMS files. Can anyone send me a modem setup string?
- >>
- >>Um, I hate to tell you, but that *IS* the maximum transfer rate.
- >>These files are already compressed so the modem isn't going to be able
- >>to do that for you. 1600+ cps is darned respectable.
- >>
- >>Kids these days, I tell ya. When *I* started BBSing, we had 300 baud
- >>modems and we LIKED IT! :-) 30 cps file transfer rates, oh boy!
- >>
- >However, the cps can goes up to 1800+ for my IBM PC with ZIP files. Is
- >this the limitation of Amiga? Or Jr-Comm?
- >
-
- More likely it's a problem with ZIP. This would indicate that ZIP files are
- not as tightly compressed as LHA or DMS files and so the modem is able to
- compress them a bit. Since the LHA files are compressed beyond the modems
- capabilities, they go through as they are. The throughput would be the same
- because the LHA files would contain more compressed data.
-
- Also, which protocols are you using? Zmodem, Sealink, Xmodem, Ymodem? The
- same on both machines?
-
- I remember the days when our UPI copy came to the station at 110bps!
- Aaaarg. I still remember watching 300bps streaming across that 40 column
- C64 screen. Gee, I thought that was so cool. 8-/
-
- -Joel
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- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
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