Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!netxcom!elw From: elw@netxcom.netx.com (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: 19200bps Summary: That's what the French did... Keywords: 19200 bps Message-ID: <405@netxcom.netx.com> Date: 14 May 91 18:18:16 GMT References: <1991May5.201708.452@cec1.wustl.edu> <1991May7.125031.2331@cec1.wustl.edu> Organization: NetExpress Inc., Vienna, VA, USA Lines: 15 In article <1991May7.125031.2331@cec1.wustl.edu> amc4919@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) writes: >You say that current 9600bps modems can sustain that rate in both directions? >Then it should be no problem to have 19200bps one direction (and, say, 1200bps >the other). I think this would be far more useful anyway. In my experience, >the traffic is always much greater in one direction. >AMC Effectively, that's what the French did with their "Datatel" system. (Did I get the name right?) Only they used something like 300 baud from computer to terminal and 30 the other way. That's the jist of it, even if I got the hard numbers wrong. I only remember this from one viewing of a TV show on Discovery. I do remember that they were using some very non-standard [at least in the US] baud rates, with the computer to terminal link being MUCH faster than the terminal to computer link.