It's been a long time since I've benchmarked this, but way back when I did,
WRQ's (Fast File Transfer - not standard protocol) WAS faster than FTP.

Though the protocols are similar, WRQ's program was smarter than FTP, and
adapted itself to different packet sizes for it's data transfers, which made
a significant difference in throughput over links of varying speeds.

The 3000's network stack had been (and still is I think) significantly
slower than other boxes, and Reflection's FFT would take advantage of this
by using packet sizes as large as possible (minimizing the number of
packets) over fast links. Don't know if the modern ftp does this or not -
the older versions I saw didn't.

WRQ's labelled file transfer also seemed to do a much more reliable job of
recreating almost any MPE filetype... Recent FTP versions have gotten much
better in that respect, but I still prefer WRQ LABELS.. ;-) Call me old
fashioned, but it's always worked well for me.

FWIW,
  -Chris Bartram

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Saturday, May 05, 2001 5:17 PM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] WRQ PCLINK2 v3.53 install
problem on 6.5pp2?

                At 02:16 PM 5/5/2001 -0700, Sletten Kenneth W KPWA after
Mark B. wrote:
                >FWIW Sidebar:  I pretty much swore off using any Termulator
to do
                >file transfers some time ago;  since FTP/iX became more
capable
                >and "generic":   On the whole it seems much more reliable;
and what
                >I'm sending does not get "enhanced" or "decremented" during
                >transfer (I've seen a few several cases of that with
termulator file
                >transfer (not Reflection) ).

                FTP transfers are also much faster than Reflection
transfers.

                --------------------------------
                Tom Brandt
                Northtech Systems, Inc.
                313 N. 1st Street
                Ann Arbor, MI 48103
                http://www.northtech.com/

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