Danny, at 14:59 on Sep 02 1996, you wrote to William Brackenridge...

WB> I have a 386 with an ordinary Serial Port.  Currently, I have a 2400
WB> modem and I am thinking of buying a faster one.  Could anyone tell me
WB> the maximum speed of modem which would work with my computer. 

DK> If you have standard com ports, don't try and go above 14.4K for
DK> an external.  It will probably work, but you can't guarantee
DK> reliable transfers.

That's not true at all.  In fact, I often used to run my old 33k6 Sportster
under Qmodem (MS-DOS) on my son's 386DX40 with a 16450 UART, and was seeing
transfer rates in the order of 3350cps, with NO errors whatsoever.  The
bottom line is that if you are careful, it can be done, and quite easily
too, even under a decent MTing OS like OS2/2, for example.

DK> If you are buying an internal, it won't matter.  Internal modems have a com 
DK> port built in complete with the new high speed uart chips. 

That's generally true of internals now, but it wasn't always the case. 
Indeed, I'm currently sitting here looking at a V.32 internal modem which
only has a 16450 UART on-board.

Regards, Bill
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