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From: tamboer@cs.vu.nl (Tamboer Erik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modems, bulletin boards, and 2400 baud
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:12:42 GMT
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richs@microsoft.UUCP (Rick SCHAUT) writes:

>In article <00939602.BF4A8760@QMD.PHY.NIST.GOV> msd@enh.nist.gov (M. Scott Dewey) writes:
>>I'm having a small problem when I connect with bulletin boards that
>>advertise running at baud rates of 300/1200/2400.  First I set my Everex

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>itself to that baud rate.  The modems on multibaud BBS's start up at 1200
>baud, and, if the calling modem does not answer back after a few seconds,
>kick up to 2400 baud.  Hence, your connections are established at 1200
>baud.  Boards that are exclusively 2400 baud, however, start up at 2400
>baud, and that's why those connections are fine.

Wouldn't it be more logical for a multibaud BBS to start at the highest
supported baudrate and try lower rates later (in descending order of speed),
that way each caller will connect using the highest possible speed.
In fact, I thought this was the way it was done...
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