On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:43:15 -0600 Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Agreed; but my ISP will not 'CONNECT' with anything less > than 19200. Altho I dont see any reason why an xt could > not run a 56k external or jumper modem. The technical support staff at my ISP says that they don't support any connections at less than 19200. That is what they say. The fact is that "Shentel.net" will work just fine at 2400 bps. I don't know if it will work at even slower speeds. When the techies tell you that they don't "support" something it is often just their polite way of telling you that you are on your own and they don't want to help. BTW, the techies at my ISP also say that they don't support DOS. That is what they say, but I never have trouble getting on with DOS. It is often very difficult to get a techie to give you any straight answers. If they don't know whether something might work or if they don't know how to help they will just tell you that they don't support it. The techies at ISPs usually are not the kind of folks that will confess to any ignorance about the systems they manage and operate. With an external modem an XT cannot handle anything faster than a 9600 connection unless you install a serial port card having a 16650 UART chip or better. The old vintage serial cards aren't fast enough. There are also some 286s and even later vintage machines having the earlier vintage serial cards. BTW, there are many various freeware diagnostic utilities you can download that are good for detecting whether your serial card has a 16650 UART chip. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
