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- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: Telemate speed problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.003754.22952@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Dec30.203011.3674@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec31.102222.4714@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:37:54 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.102222.4714@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl (Jeroen W. Pluimers) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec30.203011.3674@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes:
- >>Having just heard about Telemate (v3.10), I tried it, and found that I
- >>liked the features much better than telix, procomm, or any others I've
- >>seen, BUUUUT -- It has one major problem, which, to me, renders it useless.
- >>
- >>It is much too slow at updating the screen (also gets timeouts with zmodem).
- [I.e., can't really go faster than 19200 regardless of setting]
-
- >Never had this problem myself. You could of course try the latest version 3.20.
-
-
- I think you're confusing Telemate with Telix. Telemate seems to be at
- version 3.10 for the newest; Telix is at 3.20. My problem is with Tel*EMATE*,
- not Tel*IX*. Telix has no problem with the speed, but lacks many many features
- of Telemate. My gripe is that Telemate is (according to the admission of
- their support people) unable to handle fast modems.
-
- Yeah, I know, I don't have to use/buy it if I don't like it, right. But,
- hey, it's really frustrating to find something that has all these useful
- features but BAM! it lacks a critical requirement like handling standard
- hardware. Worse, the folks writing it don't seem to care -- that's my
- real gripe with them; I want them to care, and to fix this blatant problem.
-
- So I thought I might stir up a little support from the net, see if they
- can't be convinced to make this thing work.
-
- The obnoxious part of it is that you may not *know* it's slow unless you
- test it. That bugs me too -- many people may think it's happy at 38400
- or 57600 when in fact it's not painting faster than 19200! And folks
- might just blame line noise for the transfer retries, when indeed it
- is the program. To me, this borders on misleading. Ok, end of tirade.
-
- Anyone interested in this subject even? Or am I the only one who wants
- all the speed I can get? :-)
- --
-
- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
-
- "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."
-