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- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Does anybody REALLY need 115.2K baud for a modem?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.150835.1362@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Keywords: modem serial RS-232
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <Bt0Fn5.6KF@cd.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 15:08:35 GMT
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- mike@cd.com (Mike Heins) writes:
-
- >I've been seeing some requests for 57.6K and even 115.2K baud
- >throughput levels for modems. These levels of performance are hard to
- >understand for asynch modems, which are typically limited to 19.2K
- >baud at most. Even with 3:1 data compression (merely a dream if you
- >listen to most sophisticated users), that is only 57.6K baud
- >throughput. What is 115.2 needed for?
-
- Supposedly the Telebit Worldblazer runs approx 24K modem-to-modem.
- With 3:1, that 72K. V.FAST is coming, who knows what actual thruput
- will be.
-
- You can use other things besides async modems on those ports.
-
- And two years from now, 115.2 may not be fast enough.
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