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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!puma
- From: puma <puma@halcyon.com>
- Subject: Re: 14.4Kbps Modems and Procomm+
- Message-ID: <8w8VTB2w165w@halcyon.com>
- Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
- Keywords: l1,99
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <1992Nov6.065628.29610@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:47:06 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
-
- > In article <W8SDZ.12826597553.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> CHARLIE@UMVMA.UMS
- > >husc10.harvard.edu!jiu1@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU writes:
- > >>I just "discovered" that my copy of procomm plus does not support
- > >>14.4K bps communication speed. After 2,400 come 4,800, 9,600,
- ...
- > clock / divisor = speed
- > ----------------------------
- > 115,200 / 1 = 115,200
- > 115,200 / 2 = 57,600
- > 115,200 / 3 = 38,400
- > 115,200 / 6 = 19,200
- > 115,200 / 12 = 9,600
- > 115,200 / 48 = 2,400
- > 115,200 / 96 = 1,200
- > 115,200 / 384 = 300
- >
- > You'll notice that there are a lot of divisor values missing if you
- > only list the "normal" speeds. A divisor value of 8 will give you
- > 14,400 bps.
- >
- > So you see the software certainly could support 14,400 bps. They just
- > haven't done it.
- but the real point here is that you don't WANT to talk at 14,400 bps
- to the modem, you want to use a faster speed 19,200 or 38,400 and
- flow control to allow the modem to do whatever compression is possible
- on the data stream.
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-