MNP Modems
09-May-90 22:46:30
Sb: #103620-MNP Modems
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: George Ellis 71570,2267
George,
I suspect that you would get a more complete answer to this on PPFORUM,
where they support the MNP modems they sell. I can tell you that I had
very noisy lines, with constant garbage instead of data, before I got this
modem and got it set for MNP. I don't think I'm getting any speedup of
transfer, since CIS is using MNP level4, and that level does not do the
compression. I don't have noise problems any more, though. Once in a
while, when the lines are at their worst, I get cut off, but I never see
the garbage characters any more.
If you can connect with another MNP Level 5 modem, you get data compression
and that does give you nearly double (probably not quite) the rate, so that
would be close to 4800.
Currently, almost all of the CIS modems are at either 1200 or 2400. I
believe they have done some testing with 9600 b, but that speed is not
offered to us, so far as I know.
……Betty