Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: How to transfer data ... slowly.

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-04-2004, 06:42 PM:

I've just bought a secondhand network switch for home, to replace an old hub. I needed to upgrade the firmware in it, about 650kB, and there's something wrong with the old firmware, so I can't do a TFTP transfer, I've got to do an Xmodem transfer over the serial console port at 2400 bps, can't configure the port to go any faster until I get the new firmware loaded. I'm getting about 1940 'useful' bps, it's horrible. I remember a time when I thought 300bps was fast!

Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 08-05-2004, 12:12 AM:

bummer dude, what type of switch is it?

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 08-05-2004, 02:09 AM:

I connect to the internet at that speed.

That's only a 45 minute and 45 seconds transfer... no biggie, it takes longer to download my spam. [Smile]

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-05-2004, 04:56 PM:

An old HP Procurve 224M. We've got a few 2524s and a 212M at work, but most of our switches sre unmanged Netgears at the edge, and Extreme elsewhere, Black Diamond 6808 at the core, with lots of Summit48si a handful of Summit 24e3 and a Summit 5i in the cabinets.

The first 300 bps I saw was a dot matrix printing terminal, which seemed really fast when you were used to teletypes running at 110.