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echo: binkley
to: Richard Glidden
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 1996-03-26 15:49:22
subject: Bad transfers

Richard Glidden wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:


RG>   It sounds like it is working WELL in your setup, but the fact
RG> remains that you CAN'T get "Optimum" performance.  It depends a lot
RG> on what you're sending.  With Data Compression enabled, a 28.8 can
RG> possibly send data at up to 11520 cps!  (Basically, if you have a
RG> text file full of "A"'s, that's what you can get).  Compressed files
RG> will often not go much above 3600cps...

Is ideal *really* necessary in this case? I don't think a user will really
notice/care whether text displays at 57600 or 38400, but the primary
criteria will be echomail and file transfers, neither of which really
compress beyond the capabilities of a 38400-locked port.



--- timEd 1.10+

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