Re: 57.6K driver for modem?

[sknkwrks@snooky.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <1993Apr29.023540.9698@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
>My friend in Singapore keeps urging me to find a driver for allowing modem
>to run at 57.6Kb. He said that he has seen such a driver, and AppleTalk also
>run at the speed.

There's really no reason to run the comm ports at such a high speed,
except for a direct serial connection.  For a modem connection, 19.2K
is more than fast enough.  If uncompressed text is moving through the
modem, odds are you're reading it interactively...and most people
can't keep up with text scrolling by at 19.2K, let alone faster
speeds.  A screenful of text will appear, for all practical purposes,
just as fast at 19.2K as at a faster speed.  For precompressed files,
the best throughput you'll get out of a V.32bis modem is about 1600
cps...this is well within what 19.2K can handle.

I keep the comm port on my BBS locked at 19.2K...it works reliably and
nobody complains about speed (most of my callers are still plodding
along at 2400 anyway).

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