Hello Eddy,
zaterdag 04 september 1999 19.43, Eddy Thilleman wrote to Kris Steenhaut:

 ET> Hi Kris,

 ET> 31 Aug 99, Kris Steenhaut of 2:292/8125.11 wrote to Steve Mccrystal:

 KS>> More stable than Sio. With Sio I had regular 45333 connect
 KS>> with Internet, seldom 48000 or 49333. With Quatech drivers I
 KS>> do have regular 48000 connect, and seldom 45.333 or 49333.

 ET> Not my experience. And this tells me you have a 56K modem. Which one?

3COM U.S. Robotics faxmodem.


 ET> I've an external Etech Bullet V90.

 ET> With SIO, normally I get connects at 50667, sometimes 52000, and once
 ET> in a while 49333 (all bps) with my ISP.

 ET> 33600 for me with my fido boss, because he doesn't have a V90 server
 ET> modem.

And did you compare with the Quatech?

 KS>> Imho, the Sio never have match completely the move from Warp
 KS>> 3 --> Warp 4.

 ET> I'm running Warp 4 fp 9, and I'm using SIO. And I don't see how a
 ET> serial port driver (provided properly configured and locked at
 ET> _minimum_ 57600bps, better at 115200bps if serial port and modem
 ET> support that but most do nowadays) could affect the connect speed,
 ET> which is of a matter of only between the two modems and not to the
 ET> serial port driver in other words this is (or should be) transparent
 ET> to the system and to the serial port driver.

We might differ on that. Actually, you are saying the Warp stock comm drivers
(comm.sys, vcom.sys) are just as good as any other. No, I'm becoming fully
aware drivers are far more important that hardware.


 ET> I haven't tried the Quatech drivers, because I never heard of it
 ET> before, and I see no reason to use the Quatech drivers. Your connect
 ET> speeds are below mine, so I might conclude from this that the Quatech
 ET> drivers are less competent than SIO

No, you may not, coz I wrote I do have better connects and stability with the
Quatech,  and I did compare the Quatech & Sio. As you didn't try out the
Quatech, you can't say anything about these.


 ET> , like you make general conclusions
 ET> exclusively from _your_ experience.

At least I am talking about things I have experience of, I'm not referring to
hear-saying.

BTW: This thread started coz our friend  JdePD rightly complained about the
tricks he has  to do in order to update his 8 ports Sio. I just wanted to
provide him with a valuable alternative.


    Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2

      Kris

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