#Term
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Joachim,
modern modems really don't care about the speed you use to talk to them.
With error detection and datacompression turned on, you're even *required*
to talk to your modem at a higher speed than your modem talks to the other
modem. Otherwise the datacompression is useless. A 14400 modem with V42bis
should be using a least 19200 baud for it's terminal connection. I have
mine at 57600 even (using an i/o-card). A 28800 baud modem should really
use 57600 baud to talk to your computer.
Please, don't tell me you've been using your 14400 modem at 14400 baud
all this time…? 🙂
>F<riso
Friso P. Gosliga | Auto
CIS: 100341,464 – Internet: Friso.Gosliga@kub.nl | Pilot
Friso,
you're surely right with that most modems can talk with the computer at pretty
high speed. I use a ZyXel 1496 and can use Term on my A2000/030 with linkspeed
of 76.800 baud and no problems. The speed between my modem and the remote one
doesn't exceed 19.200, of course, and only when the other side uses a ZyXel
too.
But OTOH, Steve Alstrom adviced not to use too much of linkspeed if one uses
Autopilot, even with an 030-equipped Amiga. I'm now running connect speed and
linkspeed of 9.600 all the same (my CIS-node in Germany won't go any faster 🙁
). Steve says that AutoPilot has so much to do building it's various files that
an higher linkspeed could cause messages to be left out if you're not on an 040
at least. Indeed I _had_ some trouble with lost messages when I run AP with
higher linkspeeds…
Regards,
Joachim Sondermann-Bieker
on Amiga AutoPilot 1.77 from Cologne, Germany