From: Benjamin Koh (benkoh_at_leland.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:41:55 EST
If both TPs are fairly recent and support the new 4Mbps standard that
should give you about 400KB/s - pretty good I should think. I have a
friend who connected his Laserjet 5 to his TP600 via IR, and apparently
it prints much faster than the parallel port.
Benjamin
David Ross wrote:
>
> > From an old copy of "Windows 95 Secrets:"
> >
> > ...DCC is not able to give you the 14 kilobytes per second of
> > file transfer speed that the 115,000 (self: from the newer
> > UARTs) would imply. DCC is much slower on a serial cable
> > than Laplink for Windows. Once you've used Laplink, DCC is
> > essentially unusable.
>
> Perhaps, but a DUS/DUN connection (*not* DCC) over a fast serial cable or IRdA port
> can easily approach maximum speeds. I used to regularly set up an IRdA PPP connection
> between one laptop (hardwired to the net, and acting as proxy server) and a client laptop
> through the IrDA port, and throughput was usually pretty close to the 115K baud rate (as
> measured by System Monitor).
>
> - David R.
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