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Gary McKinney (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Thu, 22 May 1997 08:30:14 -0400

Yes - retraining is a function of the modem (and I have downloaded text
files with 5-Kbyte/sec transfer rates when hardware compression kicked in
<grin>). I have a 28.8 Sportster internal in my home machine and all of
our dialup modems are 33.6 Sportsters...

Gary McKinney, Megabits Online Systems Administrator
gmckinney@megabits.net http://www.megabits.net (407) 453-5900

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> From: PM Mailing List <pmlist@cosmo.mitec.net>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject:
> Date: Thursday, May 22, 1997 2:00 AM
>
>
> Dialing in from a USR 33.6k sportster at home, to our PM2E30 connected to
> identical sportsters: Windows 95 reports "Connected at 28800".
> Downloading a file from our ftp server, I can get 3.5-3.6 kBps. Just
> wondering - I keep hearing that PM3 will retrain the connection speed.
> Anyone know if our setup (PM2E30 w/ sportsters) will retrain similarly?
>
> Thomas
>
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> From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:33:04 -0700
> Subject: Re: USR TC vs. PM3 Test results
>
> < snippped >
>
> Not for me. My ol' trusty 2e/30 hooked up to a USR MP/16. Downloading an
> Apache log file. Got over 10k cps consistantly. On the PM-3, only 7.5k
> cps. Livingston says compression will improve with the newer modem code
> coming out.
>
> Now on gzipped files, yes, the fastest I've ever seen is on the PM-3. My
> SupraFax showed a 31.2k connection on its read-out, but I got over 3.4
> kBps on a downoad of a gzipped logfile (size of the file/time it took).
> This is
>
>