Re: [NTLK] Serial docking speed boost

230400bps serial works, there's a dock plugin and it works with
escale (and i *think* NCU)
it's fast enough, but I still use wireless (less setting up). In fact
I am trying to write a packing install client/server combo which uses
Eckhart's excellent NHttpLib and IC/VC to install packages (I know
you can do it with fetch url and apache, thats how I do it at the
moment, but it'll be nice to have a proper application to do it
with), it will be free, it will be cross-platform (written in
realbasic), it will be open source and I won't have time to finish it
(A-Levels!), so if someone wants to, they can, contact me for the
source code! (no website yet unfortunatly) but it will work,
currently I get a 100% package install success rate using apache (a
LOT better then any other method for me, even NCU), and my mini
webserver almost works (few small TCP/IP errors) and i see it as a
very good way to install packages as soon as NIE is installed, as for
bootstrapping, perhaps we could somehow arrange a "push" over irda to
install NIE and the client package in one sweep, then get the rest of
the packages over TCP/IP? Even over null modem would work (i remember
dumping my rom for einstein over null modem before i got a wireless
card, it was SLOW, even at 230kbaud, but of course 8MB is quite big
even at that speed) But yes, it can be done

that was a bit OT, sorry :P

cheers,

Adam

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, at 20:20:07 +0900, James Wages
<james@kiramek.com> wrote:

>
> Colin Pate wrote:
>>> I have read some things about a serial speed boost package, like
>>> increasing
>>> serial speed when docking to faster than 38400 bps? Can anyone
>>> tell me
>>> anything about this?
> Victor Rehorst <victor@newtontalk.net> replied:
>> It's described in the wiki here:
>> http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/
>> NewtonConnectionUtilities
>
>
> But even the "boosted" speed of 57.6kbps is painfully slow. Sadly,
> Mac
> serial ports even on an SE/30 support much faster than this, on
> order of
> 128kbps and higher. I sure wish some enterprising Newton hacker/
> programmer
> out there would hack NCU to support 128kbps. I would pay money for
> that,
> actually. Yes, yes, I am aware of other "OS X options" that have a
> faster
> transfer rate. But I still would pay good money for a hacked NCU
> that I can
> use at a faster serial rate on my old Macs.

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