Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!caen!umich!vela!sycom!vrtwo!matt From: matt@vrtwo.UUCP (Matt Buford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!! Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 05:26:01 GMT References: <29138@know.pws.bull.com> <9149@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <9154@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu><1991Jun13.203055.23427@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> wo.UUCP> Distribution: world Organization: Virtual Reality II BBS - Kauai, Hawaii - 808-337-1560 Lines: 25 writes: >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. Well I already sent you mail about this, but I'll put it here so others can see it too... Will increasing the packet size fix or at least help this? -- .____________________________________________________________________________. | | | | 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 | |__________________________|_________________________________________________|