Re: Help with Apple IIc+ and ProTerm on BBS

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>In article shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...
>
>>When I tried my USR Courier V.everything on my IIgs, the only way to get 
>>it to work reliably was to run the port at 19200 and make do with 19200 
>>tops from my 33600 modem. I keep a 14400 on there and put the USR back on 
>>my Mac. 
>
>    I managed to get a USR Sportster 33600 modem to operate near it's
>top speed (around 31200, which is often normal, even on PC/Mac) with
>no problems at all. I used ProTERM 3.1 which set the port speed to a
>higher rate than the 19200 limit in the Control Panel (of course my
>IIgs is highly accelerated, which may make the difference).

Exactly.  This has been my experience also.  The other trick is to
not have any interrupt eating extensions around.  This includes
screen savers and, I would imagine, AppleTalk.  This advice applies
to Macs too, as I found out on a Mac LC several years ago.

>
>    Anything over 14400 on an Apple IIgs is generally overkill though,
>since your mostly displaying nothing but text characters on screen. As
>for file downloads, most GS-specific archives are under 800K or less
>(although there are cases were generic files such as WAVs or MODs can
>be several megabytes large, in which case a faster modem would be handy).
>Perhaps once SIS is available or "GSWeb" under GS/TCP, then there will
>be incentive to get a 28.8K or 33.6K modem.

Well, lets say you ftp several megabytes of files to your UNIX
account and you wanted to download them all at once (sz *.SHK).
Extra speed would be very useful.  A simple rotary switchbox
to share the modem between a IIgs and a PC is the most economical
solution.

-Scott G.