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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 29 Mar 1996 17:34:59 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jwalters@idirect.com (Jonathan Walters) wrote:
]
] Is it a figment of my imagination or do most modems already compress
] any data being transfered.
Most do. This is, in fact, evil.
] That would make LBX a waste of time.
This is a commonly held misconception (see above).
With a compressing modem, I am limited to communicating at
my DTE speed (the speed of the port to the modem).
If I do compression in my computer, I increase the amount of
data I can communicate to the modem (and thus over the wire)
without regard to my DTE speed.
This has been used for years by Pacer Communications in their
AppleTalk remote access product to increase effective throughput.
Just FYI: LBX is reduced protocol overhead, not compression,
anyway.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.