Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New UUCP Protocol (was: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP)
Message-ID: <9757@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Oct 89 18:49:18 GMT
References: <1024@faatcrl.UUCP> <710@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <710@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:

>> The 'g' protocol is a bit outdated.  But it's not as bad as one might think.

>Now, let's see. 2400 BPS * 64 data characters per block / 70 actual characters
>means you can crank along at about 219 CPS, or 91.4 % of available

[...]
>Then if you go to 1024 byte packets ......
>2400 * 1024 / 1030 == 238 CPS,

If you are going to calculate the best case numbers for a transfer,
(i.e. no errors) you should also look at the worst case (i.e. the
maximum errors tolerable before the protocol drops the line).  It is
going to take a lot longer to retransmit a bad 1K packet.  After all,
the ability to detect and correct errors is the reason that packets are
used in the first place.

Les Mikesell