david@cgh.UUCP (David Kozinn) (12/08/89)
I recently attached a Telebit Trailblazer Plus modem to my Microport System V/386 for use with UUCP and the like. Things are working well, except for one very annoying problem. It seems that while I can send at the expected high speeds, when a file of any size larger than perhaps about 2 K is sent to my system, the transfer rate drops from the 1700-1800cps range down to something like 325cps. Watching the modem, it seems that my system is holding up things, and since this happens with several systems I'm pretty confident that the problem is on my end, not on the remote end. (I've further determined that when I hook up my DOS system directly to the Unix system and try file xfers at the same 19.2K speed, I run into similar problems.) A friend has suggested that there may be some buffers which have filled up and need to be emptied before the transfer may resume, and that certainly seems likely, but since I know that I've been able to send to systems that aren't as speedy as mine (this is a Compaq 386/16, I've sent to 286 machines and they've been able to receive at 19.2Kb just fine), there must be some way to tune things. Given that Microport isn't exactly providing customer support, and I haven't (as yet) been able to find anything in the manuals, I was hoping that someone out there in netland could help me. Please reply via email to one of the addresses below, I'm on a guest system right now because my local news feed is currently down (though I'm still getting mail.) I'll summarize to the net. David Kozinn | UUCP: {rutgers | uunet}!cbmvax!cgh!monymys!david MONY Financial Services | UUCP: ...!rutgers!princeton!mccc!monymsys!david Glenpointe Center West | Internet: cgh!monymsys!david@manta.pha.pa.us Mail Drop 75-14 | GEnie: D.KOZINN Teaneck, NJ 07666-6888 | Telephone: +1-201-907-6990