On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Wonko the Sane wrote:

> port down from 115K to 38.4K because 38.4K got me better speeds.  i guess
> even with the fancy hardware kludge called a 16550 FIFO an ISA based 386 

This is usually because of the modem itself, not the serial port.
Besides, why do you think a 14.4k modem is going to do anything better
than 38.4k?  

> yea, i am definitely going to put the modem on one of the SUN 3/180's

Be prepared for lost packets and system load...  Seriously, an Intel
machine with a 16550 UART can handle a modem much more smoothly than any
Sun will.

Mike.

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