The claim about how Kermit can be just as fast as it's contemporaries like zmodem if it is configured correctly is absolutely true. It's also a statement about

The claim about how Kermit can be just as fast as it's contemporaries like zmodem if it is configured correctly is absolutely true. It's also a statement about the power of defaults. By the time you research out how to make kermit as fast as zmodem, you may as well have switched to zmodem which does it for you. Configuring it was easy (I did it myself plenty of times), but "switch to zmodem" is a much easier set of instructions.