Hello Goran!

Saturday October 02 1999 07:54, Goran Eriksson wrote to All:

 GE> Considering the discussion concerning the FTS-5000 description of the
 GE> nodelist "baud rate" field, I would like to ask two questions:

 GE> 1. What modems (and other DCE's likely to be used by a FidoNet node)
 GE> supporting faster communication than 2.400 bps will require floating
 GE> (non-locked) DTE-DCE speed?

None that I am aware of require it, although several do have the option.

 GE> 2. Under what circumstances may it be desirable to use floating
 GE> DTE-DCE speed although the DCE used supports locked DTE-DCE speed?

Back in the days when the majority of BBS users were still at 2400 or less,
USR came up with the option to lock the port only on error-correcting
connections. This helped allow the non-ARQ users to have hot hot-keys,
while getting the most out of error-correcting connects.  These days, most
users are at 14400 or higher, so this option probably isn't used much
anymore.

Andrew

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