Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!telebit!rls
From: rls@telebit.UUCP (Richard Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Which is best?
Summary: Telebit line turnaround delay
	 less than 150 ms (not one second!)
Message-ID: <299@telebit.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 20:35:31 GMT
References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP>
Organization: Telebit Corporation, Cupertine, CA
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In a recent article, Larry wrote:

> Wrong!  My TB+ has nearly full-duplex response in interactive mode.  I've
> also tried running uucp between two TB's running PEP w/o the spoofing,
> and while it's not blazingly fast, the turn-around is no where near even
> one second.  I'd be interested in hearing the accurate figure from Telebit,
> but I would guess that it is somewhere around 150ms.
> 

And yes, he is right, our spec for turnaround time is 120 msec + or - 30 ms
plus the actual line delay (about 60 msec for a cross country call).

I think that the original poster probably had a very old TrailBlazer that only
had one packet size (the long packets of 136 ms).

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