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From: lessem@Colorado.EDU (Jeffrey M Lessem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 16550 detection
Date: 11 Nov 1994 02:27:33 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Message-ID: <39ukql$gah@lace.Colorado.EDU>
References: <CMETZ.94Oct30051603@itchy.inner.net> <Cynu1H.Is@pe1chl.ampr.org> <39r8nh$mqn@sun1000.ci.pwr.wroc.pl> <Cz2pML.8AB@pe1chl.ampr.org>
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In article <Cz2pML.8AB@pe1chl.ampr.org>, Rob Janssen <pe1chl@rabo.nl> wrote:
>>Well, once I connected 2 computers over 15m cable, the laziest I can made.
>>No single error at 115200 over 5 minutes of transfer.
>
>Well, once I connected a Motorola/CODEX V.34 modem to a router, and with
>a 2 meter high-quality cable I could not get it to work.  Lowering the
>datarate or replacing the cable with a 30cm flatcable made it work.
>The modem handbook had a page about this problem, specifying cable
>capacitance and maximum length.

Off topic warning, but as long as we're bragging I am typing this over
a 2.7 mile direct connection from my house to a terminal server,
running between 38.4 and 28.8 kbps, and yes, this end is a 16550.
-- 
Jeff.Lessem@Colorado.EDU
http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~lessem/lessem.html