Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!mccc!pjh
From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 'Blazers and slow response
Message-ID: <210@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 19:10:27 GMT
References: <188@mccc.UUCP> <510@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <2338@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <2338@chinet.UUCP> clif@chinet.UUCP (Clif Flynt) writes:
|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 spoke with them yesterday and got a similar answer.  However, unless
you took delivery in 1988, the new ROMs are $99 each!!

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