>I had that same impression described in this article that Kermit was "slow". Most of that was default settings. Kermit had defaults that assumed the worst...n

>I had that same impression described in this article that Kermit was "slow". Most of that was default settings. Kermit had defaults that assumed the worst...non-8bit-clean, no hardware flow control, small uart buffers, etc. If you tweaked the settings (sliding windows, packet size, etc), the differences in speed were negligible.