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From: brian@motcsd.csd.mot.com (Brian Smithson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: V.32 vs. PEP for lots of small uucp transfers
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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:42:55 GMT
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karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:

>If you have the choice of connecting to a machine via PEP or V.32, as in
>the case where both sides have Telebit T2500 modems (and UUNET uses them)
>and you do a great deal of traffic in small files, like lots of small
>email files, I have found that V.32 achieves significantly greater throughput
>than PEP.

On the other hand, I suspect (i.e., haven't measured) that PEP achieves
greater throughput than V.32 for small files when the number of files per
call is small.  V.32 seems to sit there and train itself interminably, but
PEP just screeches and howls a couple of times then and starts sending data.

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