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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebits: what's going on?
Message-ID: <7505@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 4 Sep 88 04:48:42 GMT
References: <1776@spdcc.COM> <7437@bigtex.uucp> <16029@onfcanim.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <16029@onfcanim.UUCP>, dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) wrote:

[ problems in talking PEP to sites with very bad lines ]

> If you're sure that you aren't going to get decent transmit rates, you
> could talk to the modem at 4800.  [..]

> It would be nice if the Trailblazer had an S-register to control the
> local buffer's high-water mark.

I considered both of these, but they only work when I call them, not
when they call me.  With this particular site, they poll me.  I can't
contort my TB+ settings because lots of people call PEP with
acceptible transfer rates.

The only solution I can think of is that the TB+ ought to set the
high-water mark on a call-by-call basis based on the available
transfer bandwidth.  Calls with potentially high transfer rates would
buffer up to the normal 20K or so, while low transfer rates would
buffer considerably.  This is the only way to deal with the answer
side I can think of.
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