Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Modem Pooling Keywords: MultiTech, bit rate conversion Message-ID: <620@hscfvax.harvard.edu> Date: 13 Sep 88 21:27:55 GMT References: <2687@mibte.UUCP> Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University Lines: 15 In article <2687@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes: > We have an application for Modem Pooling and are considering the > MultiTech 224 as we have heard that these modems will do bit rate > conversion... I.E. the terminals can be set for 9600 BPS > regardless of what the actual line rate is. > > My question to the NET is, has anyone had any experience using > this feature of the MultiTechs? > We use the speed rate conversion, but not to that extreme. E.g., we have a set of these MT's on dialin lines; the computer side is set to a fixed 1200 baud while the dialin side performs autobaud between 300 and 2400. greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny