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- From: dkunz@ix.netcom.com(Donald Kunz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 16:48:26 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4l37cq$bhb@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <4kn9v9$n6e@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4kok44$mj9@hg.oro.net> <3171de07.5184018@news.pbinet.com> <4l18iv$ps0@hg.oro.net>
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- X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Apr 17 11:48:26 AM CDT 1996
-
- In <4l18iv$ps0@hg.oro.net> estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry) writes:
-
- >Not really! If people would start demanding (and using) 'cached serial
- >ports' they would discover even 14.4's are much faster than they
- >realize. To me this increasing of the Analog Rate is a marketing ploy.
-
- Ed:
-
- We have about three dozen old 9600 bps modems that can use a DTE of
- 115,200. I am sure that you will find these just as fast as your 14400
- bps modem. In fact we have two old MNP 2400 bps modems. I think these
- also have a max DTE of 115,200. You can really impress your friends
- with the performance you'll get with these!
-
- I was in the process of throwing all these away, but gee, maybe they're
- really worth as much as the 28.8's we replaced them with.
-
- Seriously, though--if you don't understand how this stuff really works,
- you probably shouldn't be so eager to post (erronious) explanations.
-
- I used to be concerned that so many posts stated that so many different
- modems were junk. If it's that hard to figure out which speed modem is
- fastest, how can we expect someone to work through a more difficult
- communication problem without blaming the modem?
-
- Incidentally, for Ed's sake, all of our 28.8 and 33.6 modems are
- connected with a DTE of 57,600. This is more than fast enough to
- transfer the data (that we collect, anyway) between the modem and
- computer in real time. And yes, it is much faster than it would be
- with a so-called "cached" 14,400 modem.
-
- Don
-
-