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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: trailblazer modems and apollo UUCP
Message-ID: <3381@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 05:19:48 GMT
References: <121@vader.UUCP> <130@vader.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: trailblazer

In article <130@vader.UUCP> bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes:
> 
> 	For the record, I got a couple of evaluation modems from
> the local Telebit distributor and they came up quite nicely and
> very easily reached 18000+ for mailing ~25000 byte files. Only detail
> is that Apollo UUCP won't take a speed above 9600 in the L.sys and
> L-devices files (but the trailblazer figures out it's talking to
> another one and kicks in PEP mode).  I haven't tried compresses news
> over a trailblazer but I have no reason to believe that won't be
> equally as good.

Ummm, I suppose to get the 18000+ at a 9600 baud interface rate, you
were sending text files and compression is enabled.  Using uucp
protocols and sending already compressed batches, you'll probably
see about a 700-800 char/sec overall transfer rate at 9600 bps.  Nothing
to complain about, but you'd get at least a 50% improvment by jacking
up the interface rate to 19200 bps.  I'd contact Apollo and see if
they can do something about the 19200.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)