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- From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: Help: Sharing non-networkable modem
- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:37:56 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- Message-ID: <ferch.725567876@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In <mancini-251292120531@usx221.fysik.uu.se> mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini) writes:
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- >> Shiva Corp. sells a device called the NetSerial, which lets you hang just
- >> about any serial device (modem, Imagewriter) off a LocalTalk net.
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- >We have a couple of these. Unfortunately, they appear to run up to 19200
- >baud, too slow for the newer v32bis modems with compression. Is there some
- >sort of ROM upgrade we missed that will allow higher speed operation?
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- The latest ROM is version 1.35. I have one on order and hopefully it will
- be on my desk when I return from Christmas vacation. I have no idea if it
- supports higher than 19200 baud. I bought it because Shiva said it is
- necessary for System 7.x compatibility. I will be using it on a LAN to
- share a 9600 baud WAN connection, but If I have time, I'll try it with a
- V32bis modem.
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