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From: Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Downloading problems !!! Help !!!
Message-ID: <5214@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 20:03:19 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <mac1.669336994@Ra.MsState.Edu>, mac1@ra.MsState.Edu (Cheema) writes:
|    [...]
|    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 am currently using Xmodem protocol.

    Are these local calls or are you going through a packet network somewhere?
 A packet net like PCPursuit makes Xmodem painful.

| Does terminal program has any effect on this.

    Minimal.
    -het

 "Ah, but you do not understand. To be on the wire is life.
  And the rest is waiting."   Papa Wallenda

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