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- From: knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU (David Knapp)
- Subject: Re: 14,400 bps: Does any comm software support it?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.051745.22044@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:17:45 GMT
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- In article <712311803.F00001@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au> hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
- >Hello Bullwinkle!
- >
- >Thursday July 23 1992 05:18, Bullwinkle wrote:
- >
- > B> I will be getting a 14,400 bps v.32/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis
- > B> fax/modem soon. I have noticed that on all of the MSDOS
- > B> and OS/2 communications software that I have seen there is
- > B> no setting for 14,400 bps, although there is for 9600 bps and
- > B> 19,200 bps. Is there any way to access the 14,400 bps
- > B> speed, or am I stuck at 9600 bps for now? Is there any software
- > B> out there that supports 14,400 bps? Thanks.
- >
- >The serial port does not support speeds of 14.4K. Usually, you will lock your
- >port anyway.. That is, the modem and computer always communicate at a constant
- >speed, despite what speed you're connected at. EG your modem/PC could be talking
- >at 57,600bps while you're on the actual line at 300bps. You use your comms
- >software at whatever speed you've locked your port at, so you don't need 14.4K
- >speed anyway.. You'll get better throughput too.
- >
- >
- >Regards,
- >Hamish
-
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- A friend at work has procomm plus and it has speeds all the way up to 115200.
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- If my comm port doesn't support over 9600, why do I notice a speed difference
- over 9600?
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