Some of the scripts are going under the V.34 standard, so they slow the
serial port down accordingly. Setting the port to its max under those
conditions "is supposed to" speed things up, but doesn't really.
Jerry
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 04:45 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> Some of that is due to setting the serial port speed, don't forget
>> these things come from the old serial port way of connecting to a
>> modem (as a side bar, some of those scripts that claim to really speed
>> up your modem connections are doing nothing more than setting the
>> serial port speed to its maximum regardless of what speed the modem
>> is. The one that use multiple simultaneous downloads to retrieve files
>> does add a few extras). I am not entirely sure, but I recall the max
>> port speed as being around 115200 bps.
>
> I thought all programs did this. If you think about it, the v.90 modems
> claim 2:1 data compression max at 57600 bps, so their maximum
> theoretical throughput is 115200 bps, although that's never achieved.
> If you run your serial port any slower, you might be artificially
> slowing down your modem.
>
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