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Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:28:22 PDT
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Boot drive ? / Homework results

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On Wed, 08 August 2001, "Steven Levine" wrote:

> Subject: SCOUG-Programming:
> Boot drive ? / Homework results
> Sender: scoug-programming-owner
> To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
> Delivered-To: surfree.com%leganii@surfree.com
> From: "Steven Levine"
> Reply-To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:44:38 PDT
>
> .........................
>
> >As Steven pointed out in another piece of mail in this thread, TCP/IP has
> >some overhead that comes with it's many advantages. If you could dial
>
> I should have mention that I am pretty sure the Golden Compass
> sluggishness was mostly the fault of Compuserve's internet gateway. To be
> sure the tcp/ip envelope adds some bulk, but it's overhead is minor. You
> can see this by watching the packet rate. There's lots of dead time.

My experience (no scientific measurements) was that TCP/IP (PPP) vrs.
straight serial introduced a noticable but usually tolerable drop in
download speed. Not enough that I'd call it sluggish, but if
I wanted to download at max speed I'd skip the PPP.
You mention 'lots of dead time'.
I seem to remember Jeff Altman (Kermit/2, Kermit-95 author)
mentioning in some post
that there were some tweeks to the telnet protocol
on some of the many RFCs for it to get around some timeout
problems on file transfers over telnet, that didn't stop
the transfers, but did slow them down a lot.
I'll see if I can dig up an exact reference.

>
> ................
>
> Steven
>
>
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> "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.28a #10183 Warp4/FP11.5
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Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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