#access!, cis-b
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The "quick cis-b" protocol downloading ain't so quick. Trying to download a
100K file using access 1.29 at 2400 baud, the first 50K or so zipped along at
16K/min. Then things slowed down to 2K/min (25secs per 1024 block — at 2400
baud!!!) What's happening? ALso, is there an abort command to kill the
dowload? Bob Adams 75275,1102
Bob,
Hmmm… interesting, I don't know of any reason that would cause
things to slow down except for maybe line noise causing blocks to be
reX$Nre-sent. (soory, a burst of line noise there <grrrr>)
You can hit the ESC key to abort, but CIS does not always come back
to the prompt and let you do anything else. (appears to be an inherent bug in
the protocol ).
Keith
The system will slow down as it becomes more loaded. Usually, this is
noticable between about 9PM and midnight eastern time. Just too many people
for CompuServe's aging hosts. <grin>
Ah… thanks Bill… that would explain it. 🙂
Keith
Bob,
I believe (and Keith will tell you for certain) that Access! buffers the
download into ram for the first 64K block. Even that shouldn't create times
like you're seeing! I think perhaps you got a lot of retries due to noise on
your line. When the line is clear, QB is the zippiest protocol you can use
here!
Doug