Re: Setting Baud Rate

Shawn Morris (smorris@midwest.net)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:57:10 -0500 (CDT)

This is exactly the same reasons why we are using 38400. Besides, the
chances of us pushing that fast on the poor excuse for a phone system GTE
provides in So. Illinois are about nil to zero.

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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:

>
> I have about 25 Sportsters. One day I raised the baud rate to 57.6k and
> also tried 115.2k and I had ooh.. 5 of them die pretty badly and tons of
> them give garbage connecting, I tried all the standard resetting and re
> setting them up for the new baud rate but nothing helped. In my
> experience they have to sit at 38.4k.
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Shawn Morris wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry for the confusion I meant that we set the port speed on the PM2's to
> > > 38400.
> >
> > But why? You are choking your thruput if you limit a 336 modem to 38400.
>