Low uucp performance with fast modems

[Weaver Hickerson]

Somebody wrote

>> I have been using a V32 9600 baud modem with SCO Xenix 2.3.2. The
>> transfer to our feed is (of course) uucp. When checking figures for
>> transfers I seem to get something like 500-600 chars per second. This
>> seems a little pale to me.
>

Somebody else writes 
>No, that's about what you get when you run UUCP over a V.32 modem.
>
>Try buying a Telebit modem, which includes UUCP spoofing, and watch
>throughput jump to 1300cps or so.
>
>--
>Marc Unangst               |
>mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us  | "Bus error: passengers dumped"
>...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | 

Is this true if there is not a telebit on the other end of the
connection???

Sage advice if so, not so sage if not.

Weaver
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