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From: mjs@cbnews.att.com (martin.j.shannon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR 9600 baud dual standard
Summary: Use 'e' protocol!
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.195418.1817@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 19:54:18 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.024433.28717@athena.mit.edu> <1990Sep30.211908.558@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Sep30.211908.558@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) writes:
> In article <1990Sep30.171414.5132@nstar.uucp>, larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
> > yes - providing transfers in the 600-850 cps range - which isn't nearly
> > as good as the telebit modems which yield throughput as high as 1300-1400
> > cps.
> 
>   Of course, this doesn't address the UUCP g protocol, but since it's also
> a windowing protocol you should see similar results. I have seen reports of
> UUCP transfers over V.32 modems where the transfer rate is approximately
> equal to the CPS rate through the modem.

Yes, the problem is the UUCP g protocol.  That is fairly widely accepted.
I get 97% of the available bandwidth using the 'e' protocol.  Of course,
using it requires an error-free link between the uucico programs -- that
includes hardware flow control.
-- 
Marty Shannon; AT&T Bell Labs; Liberty Corner, NJ, USA
(Affiliation is given for identification only:
I don't speak for them; they don't speak for me.)