Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!! Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 18:21:10 GMT Article-I.D.: overload.dillon.8913 References: <29138@know.pws.bull.com> <9149@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <9154@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu><1991Jun13.203055.23427@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 29 In article matt@vrtwo.UUCP (Matt Buford) writes: > >I have a USR 14.4K DS coming in the mail and my feed (sycom) has a 14.4 HST >(half-duplex). Well, he tells me that when our modems connect at HST that >because of the echo checksums that UUCP uses my throughput will be UNDER 2400 >BAUD on my 14400 baud modem... NOT good. This is a well known bug with the HST, it tries to turn its half duplex connection around on even DNet's 3 BYTE ACKS!! Talk about screwups... The only thing that works well is X,Y,ZMODEM. >Also, ever heard of bimodem? >-- >.____________________________________________________________________________. >| | | >| Please send all | Sysop of the Virtual Reality BBS | >| complaints to | uunet.uu.net!umich!vela!sycom!vrtwo!matt | >| | 808-337-1560 * 2400 baud * C-Net Amiga | >| >NIL: | USR 14400 baud DS on order - 40 megs storage | >|__________________________|_________________________________________________| -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA