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- From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Rom upgrade for Telebit Trailblazer Plus?
- Message-ID: <cL9TXB5w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:20:47 EST
- References: <C15KzJ.86s@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Organization: Izot's Swamp
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- > The point, which I poorly stated, was that one rarely finds V.42 used alone
- > (the "alone" was missing above).
- >
- > The reason should be obvious -- error control without compression is a lose,
- > since you lose bandwidth for the error correction and control.
-
- Actually, LAP-M and MNP5 strip start and stop bits from the data stream
- (who needs 'em when you have CRCs?), giving up to 20% boost to throughput even
- after error correction overhead is taken into account.
-
- > Many modems can be optioned for V.42 <without> the compression (V.42bis),
- > but few people would choose to operate in that mode. V.42bis has the
- > feature of being able to "get out of the way" if the data is not
- > compressible, so there is no reason to run without it if you have it
- > available. This is not necessarily true with MNP.
-
- That's very true. I laud both USRobotics and ZyXEL for designing their
- modems so that V.42bis compression can be enabled while MNP5 compression
- remains disabled. This is the ideal combination for sites that move mostly
- compressed files. Sadly, many companies do not offer such capability.
-
- Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
- geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
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