Re: oh, no: 2 questions

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

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.

The trick is to shift-boot.