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- From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: ODI and dialup, PPP, SLIP
- Message-ID: <brian.72.0@SJF.Novell.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:46:58 GMT
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- saint@sun2 (Ming-Jer Lee) writes:
- > I doubt that the speed of ODI for dialup (SLIP or PPP) is very slow.
- >Can anyone give some related report?
-
- I suppose the question is "how fast is a network connection over
- SLIP or PPP?".
-
- This of course, depends upon many variables... The primary limitation
- is the speed of the modem connection, but other factors such as line
- quality, error correction and data compression (at various levels), and
- the type of serial port hardware in your PC all play a role.
-
- Two V.32bis modems can negotiate a maximum modulation speed of 14400 bits
- per second. This data transmission speed, coupled with V.42 error control
- and V.42bis data compression make it possible to attain data throughput
- speeds of nearly the DTE speed at which your PC serial port communicates
- with your modem. The following picture might help to illustrate this:
-
- FTP client FTP Server
- TCPIP.EXE TCPIP.EXE
- LSL.COM LSL.COM
- SLIP_PPP.COM <-VJ TCP Header compression here SLIP_PPP.COM
- ------------- -------------
- Serial Port Serial Port
- Hardware Hardware
- (16550A UART) (16550A UART)
- ------------- -------------
- | |
- 57600bps 57600bps
- | |
- V.32bis/V.42bis V.32bis/V.42bis
- Modem <--------14.4Kbps V.42bis compressed data--------> Modem
-
- In the above picture, SLIP_PPP.COM feeds TCP/IP packets in PPP or SLIP
- frames to the V.32bis/V.42bis modem at 57600bps. The modem buffers the
- data and applies V.42bis compression (unless the data is already
- compressed, in which case V.42bis recognizes this and doesn't try to
- compress it any further) and jams said compressed data across the phone
- line to the other end at 14400bps. The inverse happens on the other end.
-
- In real terms? I can FTP an ASCII file across such a connection and see
- file transfer speeds of about 4KB/second on average. Compressed ZIP
- files seem to move at about half that speed (a bit less). Consider that
- 14400bps = 1.7578KB/second theoretical maximum throughput of solid data...
- the extent to which your network traffic can be compressed is the extent to
- which you'll see better than this. V.42bis can supposedly obtain 4 to 1
- compression ratios, which pretty well explains 4KB/second FTP speeds of
- ASCII data.
-
- Other technologies come in to make the above picture yet more efficient.
- Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression is used to reduce the size of TCP
- headers by a factor of 10 -- very significant when using Telnet, less
- noticeable when doing FTP transfers. VJ TCP header compression over a line
- where the entire data stream undergoes V.42bis compression still helps, but
- to a lesser degree than when using lesser modem technology.
-
- If running NetWare IPX connections over the link, I use the latest
- BNETX.EXE at home, and PBURST.NLM on my server which helps make the idea
- of reading of data files from NetWare volumes a reasonable thing to do.
- My primary use of this is Trumpet's NEWS.* files which are stored in my
- NetWare email directory, so that articles read from home are not reread
- at the office (and viz-versa).
-
- Anyway, I'm a happy camper with an Internet/Novell-Corporate-Net node at
- my home office :-).
-
- -- brian
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Brian Meek Novell, Inc. -- Desktop Systems Group
- Internet mail: brian@Novell.COM
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