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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Getting a Telecommunications program
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.180917.25027@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:09:17 GMT
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- In article <92225.103730DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET> Dan Karipides <DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
- >In article <1992Aug11.204252.13033@lth.se>, d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson)
- >says:
- >>I don't know what modem you'll buy, but I assume that most external
- >>14400 modems can communicate with the computer at 19200 or 38400 bps,
- >>which are standard rates supported by most com programs.
- >>
- >Um....I'm not sure where you buy your modems, but wouldn't the maximum
- >communication rate of a 14400bps modem be 14400bps? If you can get
- >38400bps out of a 14400bps modem, I'd love to know how you do it.
- >
- >(You are right, BTW, that most comm programs support 19200 and 38400. I
- >would imagine these settings are for hardline connections, not modems.)
- >
- >Correct me if I'm wrong.
-
- OK; you're wrong! Newer modems claim throughput of up to 57,600 bps using
- V.32bis (14,400 bps over phone line) when combined with V.42bis compression
- of some types of data. You need to match this higher speed on the serial line
- to take advantage of the increased throughput.
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