Re: oh, no: 2 questions

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>n article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
>
>>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>> 
>>>>i can't even get hardware handshaking to work correctly, and i know my
cable
>>>>and modem (USR v90 fax) support it.  past 14.4, i drop characters like my
>>>>friend's 1-year-old running around with his magnetic alphabet kit.
>>>
>>>    Do you have an accelerator card installed? If not, it is no surprise
>>>it's dropping characters above 14.4K. You also require a properly wired
>>>hardware handshaking cable, but I assume you have that.
>> 
>>I don't have a 56k modem to test at that speed, but for sure even an
>>unaccelerated IIGS is capable of keeping up without dropping
>>characters at 28.8k connections at least.
>
>    Not from my experience, or even hardware knowledge of the IIgs. 
>A stock 2.6 MHz system is too slow to keep up with characters that
>are being sent to the screen, and characters *will* drop. You can
>lessen the problem by shift-booting the IIgs, or if using ProTERM,
>bypass GS/OS and boot it directly from ProDOS 8, but it certainly
>won't make the problem disappear.
>
>    A stock system can keep up with the pace of a 14.4k modem fine,
>but above that you _will_ need an accelerator card. This is a fact.

Well, since I routinely make 28.8k connections to my UNIX
account to read csa2 via lynx, I decided to give it a try without
the TWGS on.

I booted into ProTERM using an '8' boot (that boots
directly into ProDOS 8, FYI, I suppose you wouldn't know
this since a RamFast card would think you wanted to boot
partition 8).

No dropped characters on the VT100 emulation.  All
messages display fine.  I also tried connecting to DejaNews
with lynx (lynx navigates DejaNews fine) and also no
dropped characters.

Are you sure you are doing it right, Mitch?  Maybe
you are not using the right INIT string.  You know,
I helped out a Spectrum user once who had problems
with high speed connections by giving her a better
INIT string.