Re: 701: Highest serial port speed? and other questions?

[Elvin <elvintan@dupre.lugs.org.sg>]

> > I wasn't aware serial ports coudl run higher than 115 kbps.  I'm not
> > sure how the hardware works, but I suspect this is a hardware limit,
> > since I've never seen a software option to go higher.
> There are serial ports that can run higher than 115 kbps, such as in 
> the USR Courier I-Modem, which requires a high-speed serial card in 
> the 210kbps range (such as the internal serial adapter card made by 
> Hayes) to take advantage of v42.bis compression beyond the 128kbps 
> ISDN rate.
> Realizing that the 701 serial port ceilings at 115kbps, I'm now 
> trying to find a PCMCIA serial adapter for my TP701Cs that goes 
> beyond 128kbps.  I've seen some advertised here and there in the 
> past, but now that I'm looking for one I can't find one, go figure.
	I know we are talking about isdn adapters..but..
	I've a hayes optima 288fm.. all hayes internal and pcmicia modems
(and their communication adapters/serial cards) have this special UART
chip tat looks like a 16550 but works 2x the speed, so giving 230kps
	I wonder if the Hayes ESP adater comes in PCMCIA ??

Elvin
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