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In message <b845o5$r1k$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, me 
<user@example.net> writes
>I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a 
>significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
>( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
>
>I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.
>
>As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway 
>box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter 
>that which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression 
>will speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.
>
>Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
>stac-9 compression ?
>
What operating system are you using?  Some operating systems will do 
software compression for you.
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Phone: 01670-712624.  Fax: 0870-0526314.
Web site: <http://www.tynecomp.co.uk>.

In article <b845o5$r1k$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> user@example.net "me" writes:

> I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a 
> significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
> ( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
> 
> I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.

Indeed they do; along with another couple of ISDN compression protocols.

> As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway 
> box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter that 
> which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression will 
> speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.

In general hardware TAs do not provide these sorts of compression.  Some
routers do (and so does the USR Courier I-modem external TA).  However,
such compression is usually done in software: for instance, I use ISDNpm
under OS/2 for my TCP/IP connectivity, and this supports a compression
mode that works with Demon's end.  Typically, I see speeds of 10--18kB/s
when surfing large textual sites; this rises to about 30kB/s when
fetching newsgroup headers.

> Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
> stac-9 compression ?

You're running Windows'98; AIUI, that has inbuilt *software*
implementation of at least one of the compression methods that Demon
support.  (Users of Win2K and above are not so lucky, because they only
perform a M$ protocol which is not supported by Demon's hardware.)

You'll need to find a Windows user to tell you how to enable this
compression.  (You also need to enable it at Demon's end; were you aware
of that?)

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919

me wrote:
> 
> I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a
> significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
> ( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
> 
> I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.
> 
> As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway
> box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter that
> which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression will
> speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.
> 
> Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
> stac-9 compression ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> chris
Which Hayes TA do you have as one of the accura models which is the same
as the Zyxel omni.net does do compression. You may have to add the AT
command to your string though. I fought for ages with my Zyxel to get it
to do compression but managed it. Although be aware once you do get an
external TA to do the compression you will need to have a 16750 based
serial port to plug it into otherwise the TA will overrun a standard
16550 based serial port.

Good luck.
Cheers
-- 
Martin Saltiel

These computers will never catch on...

Martin Liddle wrote:
> In message <b845o5$r1k$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, me 
> <user@example.net> writes
> 
>> I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a 
>> significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
>> ( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
>>
>> I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.
>>
>> As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway 
>> box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter 
>> that which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression 
>> will speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
>> stac-9 compression ?
>>
> What operating system are you using?  Some operating systems will do 
> software compression for you.

I am using windows 98

You can configure your Demon compression typr Stac, MS-stac, Draft 9 and
Note from the demon website by logginig into
https://www.password.uk.demon.net/webpassword.cgi

John

"me" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:b845o5$r1k$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a
> significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
> ( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
>
> I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.
>
> As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway
> box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter that
> which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression will
> speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.
>
> Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
> stac-9 compression ?
>
> thanks
>
> chris
>

me wrote:
> I am using Home  Highway, to demon at 64K. I am not getting a 
> significant improvement over my previous 56K modem.
> ( I cannot use ADSL in our village due to BT ).
> 
> I notice that demon supports STAC-9 compression.
> 
> As far as I am aware the modem that comes built into the home highway 
> box does not support compression. Nor does a hayes terminal adapter that 
> which I also have. I assume that for most web pages, compression will 
> speed up performance as it did with my 56K modem.
> 
> Does anyone know of a terminal adapter that supports
> stac-9 compression ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> chris
> 


HERE IS THE SOLUTION TO IMPROVING DOWNLOAD SPEEDS ON
HOME HIGHWAY ISDN CONNECTION WITH DEMON


1. GO ON TO THE DEMON WEB SITE AND SET THE COMPRESSION OPTION
    TO MS-STAC ON YOUR ACCOUNT SETTINGS.

2. IN DIAL UP NETWORKING, ENABLE SOFTWARE COMPRESSION,
     UNDER THE PROPERTIES TAB OF EACH 'DIAL UP' ICON

3. THATS IT!!


DOWNLOAD SPEED ON LARGE TEXT TYPE FILES IMPROVES
TO AROUND 25KB PER SEC.

COMPRESSED FILES ARE STILL 7.8KB PER SECOND AS YOU WOULD EXPECT


THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED. ITS A SHAME THAT DEMON TECHNICAL SUPPORT 
COULD NOT HAVE TOLD ME THIS!

CH