From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 18:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA06375 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA06366 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA15540; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:21:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:21:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Barnacle Wes cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delays in ppp solved In-Reply-To: <199601161717.KAA08693@intele.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Barnacle Wes wrote: > 2. Modem compression often interferes with, and lengthens transfer of, > compressed files such as .gz and .jpg. this is indicative of a cheesy modem. LZW with the BT (british telecom) extentions will not expand the data. modem compression frees your processor for other tasks, letting the modem do some of the work (of course the cost here is more bytes thru the serial port since the modem un/compresses the data. could be a problem for cheesy uarts or chessy clones of decent uarts) jmb Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG