Hi David,
In a message to Chris Leavoy you wrote:
 DW> Hummm... interesting, never heard of a larger buffer causing
 DW> problems... But 3900CPS is most likely because the data
 DW> transfered is compressable, not that the buffer have helped
 DW> much...
The "buffer" he's referring to is the 16-byte buffer in the UART.  If you 
configure it to interrupt at 16 bytes, you may as well use an unbuffered UART 
- you'll likely get data overruns and CRC errors.
Rick
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