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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Synchronous/Asynchronous modems?!?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 00:07:48 +0100
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- jeng@mozart.inet.co.th (Eng Kok Kwang) writes:
-
- > Could someone tell me the difference between synchronous and asynchronous
- > modems?
-
- Synchronous vs. asynchronous is more an issue of the modem<->DTE
- interface than the modems themselves. Some old transmission schemes
- (V.21, V.23, and their Bell equivalents) are inherently async, all newer
- ones are inherently sync.
-
- Modems can adapt the sync transmission scheme to a async DTE interface
- by
- - V.14
- - buffered mode
- - V.42
- or alternatively offer a synchronous DTE interface.
-
- > Does Internet support synchronous communication?
-
- "Internet" (IP) doesn't bother with this, it works on top of the network
- layer.
- The Internet standard way to run IP on top of a sync bit serial link
- would be PPP (see RFC1661) in HDLC-like framing (RFC1662).
-
- > I have a Hayes Optima 14.4 that supports both synchronous and
- > asynchronous modes.
-
- Does your computer support sync mode?
-
- > Can I expect any speed advantage (on Internet) if I activate the
- > synchronous mode?
-
- With PPP: in theory yes (minimally, and I mean *minimally*), in practice
- no, and you won't find anybody offering it anyway.
-
- The above is from a technical point of view. From a practical one, just
- forget about sync mode unless someone tells you you need it for your
- application.
-
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