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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: news and telebit
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.115312.6446@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 11:53:12 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.054307.5431@medsys.uucp>
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Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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root@medsys.uucp (Superuser) writes:

>I am using a Telebit 19200 modem, SCO-Unix 3.2.2, and downloading
>news from Uunet.  I have noted that routine downloads using cron
>will average 800-1000 cps.  BUT if I run the same polling script
>from the root prompt, I will get speeds of 1200-1800 cps.  Can
>anyone shed any light on this?

What are the sizes of your bundles?  Smaller bundles always
show increased throughput - and you need to bench large bundles
to get a "real" idea of throughput.   Here on nstar.rn.com,
we batch with outbound bundles at 1 megabyte - which saves the
long distance caller the additional overhead of sending smaller
bundles - which can add up real fast.

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