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- From: lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris)
- Subject: Re: Getting a Telecommunications program
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.211925.10567@mdd.comm.mot.com>
- Sender: news@mdd.comm.mot.com
- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
- References: <GKUSHMER.92Aug11153041@jade.tufts.edu><1992Aug11.204252.13033@lth.se> <92225.103730DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:19:25 GMT
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- In <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.
- > -Dan
-
- OK, you're wrong. ;-) If the modem is doing compression, you better be able
- to have a higher data rate to the modem than the modem has across the line.
- If I am running a 14.4 modem, and it is getting a 2-1 compression, then I
- need a 28.8 host data rate, etc.
-
- The higher data rates in the comm programs can be used for null modem
- communications, but that is not their only purpose.
-
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