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(ASCEND) win98 increased time to login (fwd)
> From: "Bill Vendramin" <vendramin@niia.net>
> I noticed that you say a TA with STAC is useless unless you buy a serial
> board. Wouldn't most Ascend users be using something like a Pipeline 50 or
> 75 and hence be running through ethernet at 10Mb?
> In this situation, TA with STAC would once again be an asset. Am I
> not correct?
We have some Pipelines, as well as other such devices, but
I would not call them TAs, it's a bridge or a router.
Of course if you have an office network, then it's nice to connect the
network, not a single computer to the ISDN. Pipeline and STAC are useful
there. For a single computer this solution does not give any additional
value, but has a tenfold price.
Most of our users (students) have only a single computer that they
want to connect to the internet, and they prefer a < $100 ISDN
card. Even if they have a home network, they usually use a spare
486 and linux instead of a P50. Linux does not have STAC, but
it has other nice features. Only some MAC users have told that
they have (for example) a Zyxel TA, because there is no ISDN card
for their Macintosh model...
VesA
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com
> [mailto:owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com] On Behalf Of Vesa Halkka
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 2:17 PM
> To: ascend-users@max.bungi.com
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) win98 increased time to login (fwd)
>
>
>
> > >- if the win9x computer has ISDN or dual ISDN then sw compression is
> > >*very* useful
> > >
> > >Otherwise the sw compression is not necessary: modems do compression
> > >themselves, and it doesn't work with NT.
> > >
> > >We have it on, and it doesn't cause any trouble for us.
> >
> > Why is SW compression useful with ISDN, when the TA can do STAC
> compression
> > itself?
>
> Because
>
> ( technical reasons )
> - dual channel ISDN exceeds normal PC UART speed even without STAC
> - single channel ISDN + STAC easily exceeds normal PC UART speed
>
> ( this means that the TA STAC is useless, unless you buy a special
> serial board, which has about the same price tag as an ISDN card )
>
> - a Pentium 60 can decompress and receive DUAL channel ISDN ftp
> stream at 20% processor load, using PASSIVE teles ISDN card and win95.
>
> ( the STAC coprocessor is not needed for performance in a normal PC )
>
> - using sync ISDN with async emulation is unnecessary
>
> ( economical reasons )
>
> - TAs have ridiculous prices, you can buy 10 ISDN cards with same money
>
> The only good reason to buy a TA is a computer that cannot have ISDN,
> but has fast and good serial ports.
>
> VesA
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