On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 05:02:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, sorry if this was posted twice, I had a problem with my email.
> I had a problem where Arachne would download pages very slowly and
> stall when downloading a page. It would only do it on the page it
> downloaded the graphic images just fine, if it got that far.
> Basically, I am running it on a 166 Mhz pentium, with 72 meg ram in a
> Dr-Dos Task Manager window with 7 meg of XMS allocated. I use a
> 56k serial
> modem with a 16550 UART. What I had to do was change the computer to
> modem speed from 115200 in both the PPPD.CFG and Arachne to 19200.
> Once I did that it now downloads at a normal speed and no longer
> stalls out. Does anyone know why I would have to do this? Does
> Arachne have a problem accessing the com port at high speeds? Does it
> not buffer properly? Thanks
> John
> John Musielewicz
> Pegasus Mail: The mailer for DOS
Hi John,
in practise the speed of a normal telephone connection wil not exeed
19k2 ... often lower than that.
Your computer is blowing the bits into the modem faster than it can
handle (115k vs. 56k) and the modem is spitting it in the telephone line
at a spead much higher than the line can handle.
In the end the computer is at least 8 times faster than the line...
with stalling and other trouble as a result.
What is the point in setting the computer to speeds that modem and line
cann't handle anyway...
CU Bastiaan
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
-- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
