🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1Xj2eGAaYkkyEwWw@d-hjmoor.demon.co.uk>,
David Moor  <David@d-hjmoor.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> :-
>  Work  -  Compaq 486 DX2/66 16Mb Ram Seagate
>           420 Mb Disk 16550 uart serial
>  Home  -  Dabs 486 DX2/66 24Mb Ram Seagate 540&1200 Mb Disks 16550 uart serial
>           using the most recent seagate 32bit disk driver from their support
>           page. 
> My machine at home is (by feel) somewhat faster than the one at work (probably
> because it is VLB using the fast seagate 32bit file disk driver).   
> The main difference is that I use a US Robotics 28.8 Sportster at work and a
> Motorola 3400 28.8 Online at home. As far as I know I have never had a single
> overflow error on the machine at work. This leads me to support the faction that
> believes there is a compatibility issue between the Motorola and the Demon
> Ascend setup. I can only get below 10 errors/Hour if I disable V42 on the
> machine at home. (%C0\N as per Keith Stanbury's suggestion) (I didn't find &G2
> made any difference?) This gives me a typical max speed of circa 5.5
> Kilobytes/sec at work and 3 kilobytes/sec at home. Doesn't say much for the
> Motorola does it? (unless anyone can think of something I might have missed (yes
> I do use COMxFIFO=on on both machines with a suitable buffer and I don't think I
> have a cable fault)

I'd say everything points to either a problem with your driver
software, a cable fault or a faulty modem. It looks like either
hardware handshaking isn't working between your machine and your modem
(bad cable, bad driver or incorrect modem initialisation) or your
machine simply isn't serviceing interrupts fast enough because either
something's disabling interrupts for a long time or the threshold in
the 16550 is being set to a silly value so that you aren't getting any
use out of its FIFO.