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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix?
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:05:45 GMT
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>> On 3 Feb 1997 02:17:34 GMT, wjjr@bugs.alisa.org (John J. Rushford) said:

    JJR> I was referring to the fact that the standard UART, 16550, on
    JJR> most Intel computers will only do 115200 cps.

Which is enough in most cases. Most ISP's don't offer channel
bundeling, so the limit is 64k + compression. With compression you
might get near 115200 bps (not cps) but not really higher, unless you
try to send test files that are extremely compressible.
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