Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!romain From: romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: interactive Trailblazers Message-ID: <958@pyrnj.uucp> Date: 9 May 88 14:32:44 GMT References: <10273@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <10277@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1988May8.000738.16103@utzoo.uucp> <3749@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: romain@pyrnj.UUCP (Romain Kang) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp, Woodbridge, NJ Lines: 11 My empirical observation is that the 4.00 firmware makes a difference for interactive use when the instantaneous transmit/receive rates are above about 15000 bps. Below that, it seems to be about as mushy the same as the old TB. (I live 25 miles from my office and use a company Sprint account to dial up to pyrnj; I typically get about 12000/12000. Maybe I should try moving to Chile...) Even locally with 18031/18031, though, the TB+ has a different feel -- I think the packetization makes the screen updates slightly jerkier. I imagine there's the same sort of difference between seeing one film at 15 frames per second and another at 33 fps.