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- From: rcl90@
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART chips effecting modem speed
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 16:45:14 GMT
- Organization: IBM Austin
- Message-ID: <4eb0eq$22b6@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>
- References: <4duogt$a79@quiknet3.quiknet.com> <4dv0ro$rcb@suba01.suba.com> <4e0br1$jes@seminole.gate.net> <4e3hbd$bh1@suba01.suba.com>
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- SUMMARY: Buy an internal 28.8 and you need not concern yourself further!
-
- BUT: Remember to disable your system's built-in COM port before installing the
- new modem. For MOST people, this means disabling COM2 (as their mouse
- is connected to COM1) and setting the jumpers on your new internal modem
- for COM2.
-
- In <4e3hbd$bh1@suba01.suba.com>, haijin@qni.com (HowieZowie) writes:
- >dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- >
- >>HowieZowie (haijin@qni.com) wrote:
- >>: Fred Lowenstein <fredl@quiknet.com> wrote:
- >>:
- >>: >Does anyone know if my UART chip can effect the transmission speed of my
- >>: >internal 28.8 modem? I was going to go external but a techie friend said
- >>: >my chip would only allow effectivly 9600-14000 bps because of its design
- >>: >or speed or something.
- >>:
- >>: >Can anyone explain this to me in english? Thanks.
- >>:
- >>: Internals need yr 16550A UART chip (on yr IO/IDE board...IF you have
- >>: 16550 on said board) but was my belief that external models suppy
- >>: their own 16550 UART.
- >>: Sounds like yr onboard UART is old (which would make yr techie friend
- >>: correct) but that shouldn't have anything whatever to do with an
- >>: external 28.8 modem. Go external and don't sweat it.
- >
- >>Well, that ought to confuse him thoroughly... [g] You used "internal"
- >>where you meant "external" and vice versa. Externals are the ones you
- >>plug *into* a serial port (where the UART is) and internals supply their
- >>*own* serial port (and UART).
- >
- >>--
- >> "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- >> [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
- >Oooops...:\ Yr right of course....got my "ternals" reversed.
- >Sorry 'bout that!
- >
- >
- >
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