Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!shamash!raspail!bga 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 Lines: 18 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.