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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Differences between HST and V42
Keywords: Modem, 9600bps, HST, V4.2
Message-ID: <2387@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 18:01:30 GMT
References: <11623@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <11623@milton.u.washington.edu> tsai@milton.u.washington.edu (Men-Shen Tsai) writes:

| 3. Is there any standard amoung these high speed modems? Is there any  
|    compatiable problems between modems? 

  Three standards of interest: V.32 for 9600 baud connection, V.42 for
error correction, and V.42bis for compression.

  Proprietary protocols are PEP and HST, among others.

  Even with the standard you may have problems, but V.32 is slowly
coming into common use. I don't think it's the best technology, but if
you want a fighting chance to talk to other modems, that's the one to get.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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