Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: Downloading problems !!! Help !!! Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 18:14:38 GMT References: Organization: The Search For Terrestrial Intelligence Lines: 29 In article mac1@ra.MsState.Edu (Cheema) writes: > > I wonder if its only me or everybody else is in the same boat. I have a 1200 >baud modem and when I am downloading some long files say around 400k it makes >me wait for hours (normally 4 to 6 hrs). I have ordered another 2400 baud >modem but still I think I still will have to wait at least a couple of hours >for a file to get downloaded. Is this weird or normal ? > I am currently using Xmodem protocol. Does terminal program has any effect on If you're actually getting 120 cps over a 1200 bps connection (which you WON'T be if you use Xmodem, because it's the worst thing you can use!) simple math shows that a 400000 byte file will take 55 minutes to download. (At 2400 baud it will take 27 minutes of course.) Even with Xmodem's horrible throughput (I think I got about 1800 baud over a 2400 baud link when I was forced to use it once) you shouldn't be taking 4 to 6 hours. You must have a very noisy line. (Or a very busy system on the other end.) Does whatever program you're using give you any indication of how many times it's re-trying a packet (or how many times it's timing out?) The best thing in common use is Zmodem, in my experience. I can get AT LEAST 230 cps on a clean 2400 bps link, and that's with floppies too. -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "Speeding through the Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | universe, Thinking is 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | the best way to travel." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (The Moody Blues)