Re: oh, no: 2 questions

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
> 
>>>i can't even get hardware handshaking to work correctly, and i know my cable
>>>and modem (USR v90 fax) support it.  past 14.4, i drop characters like my
>>>friend's 1-year-old running around with his magnetic alphabet kit.
>>
>>    Do you have an accelerator card installed? If not, it is no surprise
>>it's dropping characters above 14.4K. You also require a properly wired
>>hardware handshaking cable, but I assume you have that.
> 
>I don't have a 56k modem to test at that speed, but for sure even an
>unaccelerated IIGS is capable of keeping up without dropping
>characters at 28.8k connections at least.

    Not from my experience, or even hardware knowledge of the IIgs. 
A stock 2.6 MHz system is too slow to keep up with characters that
are being sent to the screen, and characters *will* drop. You can
lessen the problem by shift-booting the IIgs, or if using ProTERM,
bypass GS/OS and boot it directly from ProDOS 8, but it certainly
won't make the problem disappear.

    A stock system can keep up with the pace of a 14.4k modem fine,
but above that you _will_ need an accelerator card. This is a fact.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca