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- From: layes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Jonathan Layes)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 14,400 bps: Does any comm software support it?
- Message-ID: <Bs2xpL.57u@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:29:44 GMT
- References: <csjohn.711865104@knuth> <1992Jul23.122353.18296@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- In article <1992Jul23.122353.18296@bnr.ca> richard@bnr.ca (Richard A. Dault) writes:
- >In article <csjohn.711865104@knuth> csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (Bullwinkle) writes:
- >>
- >>I will be getting a 14,400 bps v.32/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis
- >>fax/modem soon. I have noticed that on all of the MSDOS
- >>and OS/2 communications software that I have seen there is
- >>no setting for 14,400 bps, although there is for 9600 bps and
- >>19,200 bps. Is there any way to access the 14,400 bps
- >>speed, or am I stuck at 9600 bps for now? Is there any software
- >>out there that supports 14,400 bps? Thanks.
- >
- >No communication programs have a 14.4K baud setting.
- >
- >You set the comm speed to 19.2K baud for regular communication, or you set
- >it to 38.2K baud when using data compression. I always set mine to 38.2K
- >baud and when calling somewhere and the 'auto-detect' will slow it down if
- >necessary.
- >I use telix 3.15, you can set the comm speed to 38.2K baud.
- >
-
- Why not 57.6k? Most comm programs support it (including Telix 3.15), and
- if you do a quick calculation (14400 x v.42bis comp (4x)), you end up
- with 57.6k. If the modem is behaving properly, it will fall back to
- anything below that.
-
- Jonathan
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