Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!chinet!clif
From: clif@chinet.UUCP (Clif Flynt)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 'Blazers and slow response
Message-ID: <2338@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 19:47:18 GMT
References: <188@mccc.UUCP> <510@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: clif@chinet.UUCP (Clif Flynt)
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In article <188@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> I have a Telebit TRailblazer on my 3B2/400 and one on my XT clone.
> Whenever, I call the 3b2 from the XT, I experience a strange phenomenum:
> I can type faster than the 'blazers echo the characters to my screen.
> 


The folks at Telebit can answer this better than I, but...

  I just talked with them at their Uniforum booth yesterday, and I was
told that the new ROM for the Trailblazer can use a smaller packet, and
that the typeahead problem pretty much goes away with that.

  The problem seems to have been caused by the modem waiting until it
got 'n' characters before transmitting.  Now 'n' is smaller, and the
delay is less noticeable.

  I played a bit with their demo unit, and couldn't get more than a 
character or two ahead of the echo, and I notice that much typeahead
on my 2400 B modems' when the host I talk to is busy.


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