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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Assumptions about CONNECT messages???
Message-ID: <273.286D57EF@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 91 18:16:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: zswamp.273.286D57EF
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, MikeB 
(HAL/MISSLINKS/MikeB%Traveling_Software;_Inc.@MCIMAIL.COM ) wrote:

 >Can we assume that, in general, an error control connection 
 >will stay at the 
 >last AT command DTE speed? If not, what assumptions can be 
 >made on what the 
 >DTE speed should be following a CONNECT command? Any? 

   The port speed will remain fixed only if the modem is configured to do so 
(on some modems, including USRobotics, the command is &B1).  Factory default 
is to switch the DTE speed to match the connect speed, because that's what 
years of software has been accustomed to.

 

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Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
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