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From: roh@gmdzi.gmd.de (Peter Rohleder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: What sense has MNP5?
Keywords: MNP5 ADB-Modem Teleport Compression
Message-ID: <4470@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 5 Apr 91 09:02:38 GMT
Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany
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Recently I purchased the Teleport-ADB-Modem from Global Village. It includes
MNP 5. In the manual I read:

"Turn MNP Level 5 off if you are sending/receiving non-text documents or
applications which have been compressed using a file compression utility such 
as 'StuffIt'. The MNP Level 5 data compression algorithms do not work well on
compressed data and may degrade your file transfer performance."

Since most files which you can download from Bulletin Boards or commercial
networks are compressed it probably has no great sense to own an MNP5-Modem.

What do you think ?

Peter Rohleder

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