Subj : Re: DIY Laplink cable results
To   : Retroswim
From : kirkspragg
Date : Fri Aug 22 2025 22:18:43

 Re>  K> I think that a reasonably speed to get form the old standard parallel 
 Re>  K> in my 386, I'm stoked!
 Re> 
 Re> Hell yeah!
 Re> 
 Re> What transfer software are you using? Back in the day, we used a package
 Re> called "FastLynx", it could get around a megabit of throughport between
 Re> 486es, using a standard LapLink parallel cable. I have to assume using
 Re> some form of compression?

Yea I'm using FastLynx. My past experience with laplink hasn't been so great as it tends to just die on long running transfers. Fastlynx on the other hand seems quite stable.

Fastlynx can do compression (which I disabled for my benchmarking) so that would help. What speed 486es were they? anyting but a lowely 486sx25 should perform much better than my 386dx40, I wonder if that would lead to better parallel port data transfer rate?

Also it is possible your 486es had 'proper' bi-diretional EPP parallel ports which would increase the speed quite a lot - but I think you need a different cable that the one I made for that but I'm not completely sure.

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