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From: bob@uis-oc.UUCP (Robert J. Mathias Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.42 questions on T2500 -- How?
Message-ID: <78@uis-oc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 09:09:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.225901.10900@coplex.uucp> <1991Jun18.123604.9315@hou.amoco.com>
Reply-To: bob@uis-oc.UUCP (Robert J. Mathias Jr.)
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In article <1991Jun18.123604.9315@hou.amoco.com> zjdg11@hou.amoco.com (Jim Graham) writes:
>well, sort of....but not quite.  V.42/V.42bis are SIMILAR to MNP4/MNP5 in that
>like MNP4, V.42 is an error control protocol, and like MNP5, V.42bis is a data
>compression technique.  However, to say that V.42 == MNP4, or that 
>V.42bis == MNP5 would not be true.  Personally, I'll take V.42/V.42bis over
>MNP4/5 any day.....  [those who've seen some of my previous posts on the
>subject already knew that, I'm sure....  :-) ]

Some of us like to squeeze the last ounce of speed out of our equiptment, so
we poor miss guided souls prefer to disable V.42 and go with MNP4.  As to
V.42bis and MNP5, V.42bis is the winner but since I do alot of file xfers
of ZIPed files, I also disable compression on my modem.

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