On Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:13:44 EST Wayne T. Smith said:
>Just because I know someone will try it if we sell ADSM service w/i
>the University System, I installed the Windows client (latest one -
>with compression fix) on my Windows 3.1(1?) system at home.
>To more complete the picture, I'm running DOS 6.0 and Norton Desktop
>for Windows and the connection to a VM server is a 14.4 modem with
>SLIP.  The serial port is running at 19.6, since at higher speeds
>(Trumpet) Winsock (2) has severe problems.  No other Winsock
>applications show any problem.  This is a 486-33.
>The backup client starts as expected and zooms through the 1st 35
>files (according to the display), at which time it goes into
>slow-motion.  After increasing the VM server timeout from 1 minute
>to 3 minutes and then again to 10 minutes, backup proceeds ... at a
>crawl.  ADSM reports 0.125KB/sec, but it doesn't seem that fast. :(
>The modem transmit/receive lights *rarely* light.  The PC acts
>sluggishly as if ADSM is in the background eatly cycles.  ADSM acts
>this way whether there are other applications running or not, and
>specifically other Winsock applications or not.
>Is there a fix?  Does anyone suspect my machine, Trumpet Winsock or
>SLIP, or what?
>Thanks for any light anyone might shed,


*** Comments from STEWAJM - Stewart, Mike; 03/17/95 07:14am:
We've run SLIP w/Trumpet Winsock through an OS/2 slip server to
an MVS ADSM.  We got in the range of 2-3 KB/sec transfer rate,
and didn't notice the problems you reported.

                               Mike Stewart
                               Manager, Systems Programming
                               Auburn University