> Well, I bought one of those TC-200-S6-1 cards (16650 UART, 460Kb max DTE) to
> use under Linux with my BitSurfr Pro. After a little fiddling I got my
> scripts to work again (the fact that the BitSurfr can't autobaud into or out
> of 230Kb makes it a hassle. Also, you have to "trick" the Linux kernel into
> doing 230Kb because it doesn't yet know about that speed. That bit is easy).
Care to share with the group? I'm still waiting to see a setserial come down
the pipe that supports 16650 native. What did you do to twiddle Linus?
> All-in-all, I was able to increase my NetPipes (a raw TCP stream connection)
> throughput from 9.1KB/sec to 10KB/sec by moving to the higher DTE. This still
> isn't the 14KB/sec FTP times my friend with a pair of Ciscos reports over his
> ISDN line.
>
> Maybe the Cisco is doing compression.
Header compression might account for this, yes.
>
> I don't know. I'm disappointed, but it was only $33 after shipping, so I'm
> not jumping off any bridges (not that there's anything high enough in Florida
> to jump off and kill yourself).
Which card, and where did you get it? Byte Runners, perhaps?
Hey Ted, did you ever get the documentation from Startech?
-- Dan D'Ambrosio Wide Networking, Inc. velcro@pobox.com