Re: gnokii, Linux and irda

[Simon Huggins]

'ello gnokii

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:18:27PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Testing command was 'gnokii --getphonebook ME 1 end'.
[..]
> ----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> Model and connection                    | Avg time      | Max time      |
> Nokia 6210      ------------------------+---------------+---------------|
> model = AT/connection = irda            | 3min20s       | 3min47s       |
> model = 6210/conection = irda           | 3min17s       | 3min24s       |
> model = AT/connection = serial          | 39s           | 39s           |
> model = 6210/connection = serial        | 19s           | 19s           |
> ----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+

I get 34s for a 6210 over IrDA with a IrDA attached to the IrDA header
on my motherboard.

Though actually printing all the "Empty memory location" stuff does make
it /seem/ slower by the time it returns.

> Can anyone confirm that any other software performs much better over
> infrared? Last Friday my friend was doing SonyEricsson t65i backup
> over irda under XP and it was the hell slow either.

This is with gnokii 4.3 and 169 entries doing 
/usr/bin/time gnokii --getphonebook ME 1 end.



Simon.

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