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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!shaase
- From: shaase@microsoft.com (Stephen Haase)
- Subject: Re: A (not so?) stupid modem question.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.000518.27313@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:05:18 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul28.094546.41928@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <154hgaINNb1v@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- >*Hayes-compatible* modems are modems. Any Macintosh comm software
- >should work with any 100% Hayes-compatible modem. If you get a
- >high-speed modem (>9600 bps) you need a hardware-handshaking cable
- >($25 street).
-
- Sigh, not again. You don't *need* a hardware handshaking cable to hook your
- high speed modem to your mac. I've read countless articles about people
- getting frantic about not being able to find such a cable and wanting to
- construct their own. It is NOT necessary. I was one of those people that
- thought that you did need one, so I made one accorinding to the spec that
- I read in MacUser(Or was it the net? I don't remember) Anyways, after going
- through the process of making this cable, I set it up and let it rip! And
- voila! Nothing! In my subsequent tests, I found that adding the HWH cable
- had no affect whatsoever on the throughput of the modem. In my tests, I
- transfered many types of files(compressed, uncompressed text, apps, etc) over
- a variety of line conditions(local, long distance(good and bad connections)).
- BTW, I'm using a USR dual standard modem with a Mac IIci. About the only
- useful thing the HWH cable did was a side affect of having the cable itself!
- Since you need more pins then are available on the standard 9 pin serial
- port to enable HWH, you must disable the DTR. What this means is that your
- connection will still be maintained in case of a system error, reboot, quiting
- the term program or whatever.
- steve
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