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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MNP modems
Message-ID: <2801@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 90 20:50:49 GMT
References: <25793@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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In article <25793@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) writes:
>
>Anyone out there have any experience getting a MNP-5 modem to connect
>with a reliable link using white knight? Should WK be talking to the
>modem at 9600 baud eventhough the modem should transmit over the line at
>2400? Any tips. It is a practical peripherals 2400SA
>-- 
	WK really doesn't care whether your modem is using MNP or not
	its completely transparent to the terminal program. MNP is a 
	modem based hardware error correction protocol. For you to
	make use of it with WK, you need to read your modem manual to
	see what commands either turn it off or on, and what baud rates
	over 2400 might be supported between the Mac and the modem, while
	the modem initiates its highest link rate to the other modem.
	Of course the remote modem must also support MNP, for you to
	get MNP connections. In some cases with error correcting protocols,
	the overhead of MNP error correction can slow your file transfers
	down. So unless you have particularly noisy lines, you might not
	want to use MNP connections in all situations.
	.

-- 
Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
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