Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!petunia!csuchico.edu!lorner From: lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Tymnet is at 2400 baud Message-ID: <1991Mar13.052414.15521@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 05:24:14 GMT Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Distribution: usa Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 34 I've been watching comp.sys.mac.comm for over a month, and haven't seen and mention of this, so I thought it'd be usefull to somebody. To Telenet and Tyment, which are used to hook up to Compuserve and America Online, and place like Chico is a small place, and neither have 2400 baud access to anywhere, unlike San Francisco, which has access at any speed. But over a year ago, I discovered that Tyment has 2400 baud usage, although to is not document anywhere. If you call the friendly representative, they will kindly say that you only have 1200, although you can say that you've used 2400. At one point, I cornered a technical person, and he said that Tyment is in the process of changing over, and does not formally recognize the change yet, until the change is complete for everybody. But, he said, if you seem to have 2400 baud access, everything is up and running for your area, and anybody is welcome to use it. This was found out over a year ago, and to my knowledge, they _still_ to not formally acknowledge the 2400, although I've been using my node at 2400 flawlessly for that year. Do you know how much money you can save with Compuserve at 2400 over 1200 baud? So you have to try it to see if it works. The America Online software initializes itself to use Telenet first, then Tymnet if that does work. You have to do some switching in they customization area to fix this. I've told a lot of people in my area about this, and have been understandably overjoyed at the news that nobody knew, and I wonder by Tymnet doesn't recognize it. But it's there, and hopefully it might work for you. -- Lance Orner (lorner @ ecst.csuchico.edu) ------------------------------------- California State Univ., Chico | ------------------------------------------- Don't worry -- God thinks that it's a joke.