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From: idallen@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: FASTLINK (tm) "10,000 bps or faster" modem
Message-ID: <97@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 03:49:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 03:49:45 1985
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Reply-To: idallen@watmath.UUCP (Ian! D. Allen)
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: FASTLINK has unacceptable character delay

The recent InfoWorld review of the 10,000 bps FASTLINK modems said that a
modem would transmit a single character after a full-second delay.  If
you're thinking of using one of these things for interactive typing,
and you're depending on remote echo of characters (as in using a
full-screen editor on UNIX), you'll have to wait *two* seconds for
each singly-typed character to echo.

Their conjecture was that the modems assemble packets, and if not
enough characters fill the packet, the modem will only send the current
partial packet after a time-out.  With two modems between you and the
remote computer, this produces a sizeable delay.  The company has "no
plans" to fix this.

Sigh.  I was so hoping these modems wouldn't have such a tragic flaw.
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo