> 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/
>
>
Thanks forthe reply. That is why buffering is built in to the 16550.
None of my other comm programs have a problem with a 115200 speed
just Arachne. I would think if my line was slow it would show up on
all my comm programs. Do other people have the same problem and is
everyone running
it at 19.2k? Also if the stalling is caused by the line speed why does
it not show up
when Arachne is downloading a file or graphics? Why does it only show
up on the initial web page downloads?
John
John Musielewicz
Pegasus Mail: The mailer for DOS
