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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISDN Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:02:44 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <315AFE74.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ivo5k$jq3@sundog.tiac.net> <31553A0B.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <Doy3J8.K0M.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Thomas Unger <unger@raindrop.seaslug.org> Thomas Unger wrote: > connected to a serial port. The external TA seems appealing, but can > the serial port really handle the throughput? To take advantage of > the 128Kbps one would want to run the serial port faster, like 256 > Kbps. Are the any real disadvantages to the external Terminal > Adapter? You do lose whatever's over the top end between 115.2K and 128K, PLUS you have the 2 bit overhead of async data, but I guess it still works pretty fast (I get 10.5K/sec in my FTP transfers pretty steadily) so I don't particularly mind! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project