Re: Well, got my first PM3 :-)
Jon Rust (jpr@vcnet.com)
Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:02:51 -0800
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970403232619.1018B-100000@ws4.aa.net>
>baron@aa.net (Joe Portman) writes:
>> So far, it's surprised me. Quite frankly, I'm very impressed.
>
>What about modem throughput for compressible data?
>
>I've been testing a PM3 and noticing a bit of a drop off in terms of
>textual data and *very* compressible files (a test file of all nulls
>bytes): it managed only a consistent 5.9kbps rather than an 8.4kbps
>I've seen with the same calling modem (USR courier, 28k8 connection)
>to other hardware. (test was a single ftp data connection back from
>an otherwise unloaded ftp server, and switched ethernet in-between PM3
>and server).
>
Exactly what I see. My MP16 - PM2e combo would get 11 kbytes/s on
compressable log files. The best I get through the PM-3 is 6 -7 kbytes/s.
Smae file, same ftp server, very reproducable.
On the other hand, compressed data comes through at the same rate for each.
Jon