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From: gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Hayes Smartmodem 9600 troubles
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.025731.21550@ping.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:57:31 GMT
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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Please forgive me if this is the wrong newsgroup, and if it is, then
just hit 'r' and tell me where the right one is and I will go away.

I have been evaluating Hayes Smartmodem 9600 V.42 modems, and have had some
interesting results.  Going UUCP, the modems connect at 9600, and have their
distinctive connect tones, but the best throughput on the line has been 311
characters per second (for a 121 K file).  Is there a special UUCP setup that
these modems require in order to get speeds comparable of a 9600 modem?  I
may be wrong, but I was under the impression that 9600 baud means 960 cps.
I realize that 960cps is a total dream-world, but I am only getting 1/3 of
that, and 2/3 overhead for uucico communication is hardly what I would
expect.

Next question:  Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to get the
modem to connect 9600 to anything but another Hayes?  How can modem companies
get away with this proprietary-ism when so many people are screaming for
open systems?  We want open systems, but we settle for proprietary connections
between them?  This is absurd!  OK, I did not come here to give speeches, and
I apologize for wasting bandwidth.  I would, however, appreciate any help,
suggestions, whatever, in response to my questions (or even just a pointer
to which newsgroup this belongs).  Thank you very much for your time.

		-- Gordon.
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