Re: PM3 slower than PM2 (fwd)

Richard Yoo (ryoo@cymitar.net)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:55:33 -0500

On 06:15 PM 4/24/97 -0700, MegaZone shaped the electrons to say...
>The V.42bis dictionary is 1/4 the size of say USR in the current code - on
>highly compressable data - like ping packets - this makes a big difference.
>On real world data (like the web) it doesn't. Users tested this and showed
>that with compression out of the picture ping times are comparable.

I wrote about this before, and no one seemed the care <grin>... but I have
a stack of Microcom 28.8P's over here and I *disabled* all compression on
one and I still got ping times under 150ms... I heard some horrible ping
numbers form PM3 users on this list...

Is the compression code really to blame then? Or is it soooo bad that it's
expanding packets instead of compressing them?

-Richard
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