On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 01:30:21 +1000, Ben Hood wrote:
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> only internal modem is 2400bps <G>]. I found that downloading in the
> background was the fastest way to download something that would
> usually make arachne stop and stall. (Ctrl-Enter or Ctrl-Click)
I've never done this...I will try it.....
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> the internet through the LAN and IP_Masquerade was a lot faster! No
> sleeps at all, except the sites where netscape had worse ones.
> I had thought the 9600 would be better, since someone (Boanne??)
> tried reducing speed from 115200 to 19200 (IIRC) and said it was
> faster at the lower speed.
> Maybe its epppd letting us down? But on the 486 laptop that most of
> you would be aware I'm using right now, using 16550A UART there are
> few problems.
My UARTs are 16450, which with the software buffering, is fast enough
on MOST pages, at 33.6K
> [The 386 problem, I came to the conclusion that arachne was redrawing
> the screen, and took longer than expected, so couldn't check the
> (unbuffered) incoming data until it was too late and corrupted]
I'll keep this in mind, because I have some boxes which will be 386s
or slow 486s.....thanks...
It seems to be academic, now, since 1.60b1, I have had decent downloads
of all the sites that 1.50src seemed to "stick" on.....
..............gregy
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