arbab%USC-CSE@USC-ECL.ARPA (07/25/84)
People have asked whether or not PC/IX uucp works and/or is reliable at 9600 baud. I have used it, it works, but, it is SLOW! I have successfully sent and received mail and short files in the past several days. Today I tried it on four "real" files. It works, no errors, no garbage, but it is slow. It takes 12 minutes to send a 18600 byte file at 9600 baud! There is no disk activity during this exchange on the XT (except, of course, for the periodic sync). Could it be that most of this time is taken to retransmit data which is trashed due to the high speed? Has anyone tried sending real files at lower speeds? What is the effective rate at lower speeds? (For the above file, my effective speed at 9600 baud is only about 25 characters per second!) Farhad