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- From: seimet@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Uwe Seimet)
- Subject: Re: 14,400 bps terminal program
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.091946.2816@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- References: <1992Jul30.084657.11372@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:19:46 GMT
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- mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John) writes:
-
- >I've been agonizing over this point, but I have not found many
- >answers, so here goes.
-
- >The price of 14.4 kbps modems have dropped to (relatively) cheap
- >levels in the past year, and now the ones I have seen are "only"
- >$150 more than the 9600 bps modems. But most of the terminal
- >programs that I know of only have a 9600 bps setting, then it
- >jumps to the 19.2 kbps setting with nothing in between, namely the
- >14.4 kbps setting.
-
- >Does anyone know of a program that uses the 14.4 kbps setting?
-
- The speed at which two modems connect (e.g. 14400 bps) is totally
- independent of the terminal program. These programs let you select the line
- speed between computer and modem, nothing else. So you should always select
- the highest possible speed in your terminal program.
- If you select 9600 bps and the modem to modem connection is 14400 bps you
- loose performance because the modem doesn't get data quick enough to profit
- from the higer line speed.
-
- ***************************************
- * Uwe Seimet *
- * seimet@rhrk.uni-kl.de *
- * seimet@chemie.uni-kl.de *
- *-------------------------------------*
- * I really hate this damned machine, *
- * I wish that they would sell it. *
- * It never does that what I mean *
- * but only what I tell it. *
- ***************************************
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