said:
>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.
This may be true. Although TCP/IP does a pretty job with streaming as is
provided the stacks are well written.
The sluggishness I mentioned is definitely CompuServe. For example when I
download from OS2BBS, the receive led is on solid, as it should be, and
the transmit led flashes now and then when an ACK packet goes back.
Compuserve had many advantages, at one time. Speed was never one of them.
:-)
Steven
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