Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Trailblazer Performance
Message-ID: <475@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 11:31:20 GMT
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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Keywords: XMODEM, Kermit


Did anybody catch the article in Mini-Micro a couple of weeks ago
about modems and data compression?

There was a table of performance for a hayes 1200, the 'Blazer, a hayes
9600, and a null modem (wire).  They tried XMODEM, Kermit, and a protocol
I'd never heard of before (Hyperprotocol?).

As I recall, the 'Blazer beat 'em all on the Hyperprotocol, but the
chart showed abysmal performance for XMODEM and Kermit.  At the time
I thought "they must have set it up wrong".  But since all I've ever
tried is "uucp" on the 'Blazer, I don't know.  Anybody have any
real performance numbers for the 'Blazer.

BTW, the null modem was the fastest, and the cheapest in all the tests :-).

[Aside: some of you people in big companies and Universities are going to
be getting ISDN service this year.  Those that are lucky enough to
get data modules which support DMI "Mode 2" are going to be happy as
pigs in shit to know that Mode 2 is about as close to a "wire" as you're
going to get in performance, 96%-100% of a wire.]
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