On Monday 22 October 2001 12:11, you wrote: > > I'm glad someone brought this up -- I was playing with my 678 over > > the weekend, and had problems at 38400. Google tells me that some > > ISP's say use 38400, some 9600, some other things. Google did not > > tell me why this is. Anybody here have insight into this? > > I want an answer to this also. All Cisco docs for my REAL Cisco tell me > to use 38400, but it's never worked. 9600 *ALWAYS* works. What > gives? It seems like the standard for equipment is 9600-8-N-1 and it's > almost guaranteed to work, yet some hardware says to use 38400. > > -Brian > Disclaimer: The following is based on some very "vintage" memories and may be nothing more than pure hogwash at this time. You have been warned. ;-) Something in the deep dark recesses of my brain said, when I read these posts, "9600 is the true hardware maximum, everything else is just compression algorithims." -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com