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From: bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem Pooling
Summary: mostly good
Keywords: MultiTech, bit rate conversion
Message-ID: <293@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 02:21:15 GMT
References: <2687@mibte.UUCP>
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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In article <2687@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
> My question to the NET is, has anyone had any experience using
> this feature of the MultiTechs?

Here at Control Data, we use Multitech 224's with baud rate conversion (from
9600 at host to user's baud rate).  I believe the people responsible for
hardware configuration had some problems getting them set up correctly, but
once they did, there were few problems.  The only problem that I have
encountered is that my Zenith Z-49 (a DEC VT100 clone) cannot run with software
flow control (x-off) for such things as smooth scroll or hold page, because
the response to the x-off is too slow (I am running on a non-Multi-Tech 1200
baud modem), and the buffer gets overrun.  This too, may be a configuration
problem.
> Also does anyone know of other modems that perform this trick?  I
> understand that there are external boxes that will do the
> conversion at an RS-232 point.

I believe Micom (who, I believe, developed MNP compression) also does this.