Re: 56K Modems - Do I really want mine?

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:00:44 -0600 (MDT)

Does anyone have some numbers comparing compression of V.42 vs. STAC on an
analog modem 33.6k / 56k connection? I'd rather not shell out $500 and
get everyone to make these changes just to find out it isn't as good =)

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 dtrucken@zsassociates.com wrote:

> >> error control and modem compression really not necessary since I'm using
> >> PPP and PPP compression (what ever that is) anyway? What do people
> think?
> >
> >If you have STAC cards in the box, you can shut off error control entirely
> >and use PPP's error control for this (it works), and MS Windows
> compression
> >(check the "software compression" box in the profile) for compression.
> This
> >is a STAC derivitive.
> >
> >That's a *very* viable solution to the problem.
>
> Cool, this sounds very promising, I'll call my Livingston rep and order me
> a card.