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From: cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What sense has MNP5?
Keywords: MNP5 ADB-Modem Teleport Compression
Message-ID: <1991Apr05.200231.12096@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 20:02:31 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.145642.3715@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>In article <4470@gmdzi.gmd.de> roh@gmdzi.gmd.de (Peter Rohleder) writes:
>>"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 
>...
>>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.
>
>If the sole use of your modem is downloading macbinary stuffed files with
>[XYZ]modem, that may be true.
>
>If you do any interactive work where you're actually looking at the screen,
>you'll appreciate the error correction that MNP (4 or better) buys you,
>and possibly the compression.
>
>Kermit uses 7-bit data, right?  MNP-5 would help on such transfers.
>
>Finally, if you ever want to use Eudora over a modem, I strongly suggest
>MNP capability (4 or better).
>--
>Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
>Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner


Most (almost all?) downloads are binhexed after "stuffited." Therefore,
the caveat wouldn't affect them in this way (right?).

I regularly use the Teleport with Z-modem (using MNP5) and find that the
transfer rate is significantly higher (with no problems so far) than it
is without.

John