Re: PM3 & 1200bps

Marty Likier (marty@livingston.com)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 09:37:32 -0800

At 03:06 PM 12/28/96 +0200, you wrote:
>I thought 2400bps was the lowest connect speed with
>PM3 digital modems...? How come this is possible (M2):
>
>(not that we really need or want it...)
>
>>sh modems

>Mdm Port Status Speed Compression Protocol Calls Retrain Disconnect
>--- ---- ------ ----- ----------- -------- ------ ------- ------------
>M0 S0 ACTIVE 14400 V42BIS LAPM 604 0 NORMAL
>M1 S8 ACTIVE 33600 V42BIS LAPM 536 0 NORMAL
>M2 S2 ACTIVE 1200 V42BIS LAPM 328 0 NORMAL
>M3 S4 ACTIVE 26400 V42BIS LAPM 258 0 NORMAL
>M4 S3 ACTIVE 31200 V42BIS LAPM 174 2 NORMAL
>M5 S5 ACTIVE 28800 V42BIS LAPM 127 0 NORMAL
>M6 S6 ACTIVE 31200 V42BIS LAPM 73 0 NORMAL
>M7 S7 ACTIVE 28800 V42BIS LAPM 47 0 NORMAL
>M8 S1 ACTIVE 31200 V42BIS LAPM 29 0 NORMAL
>M9 READY UNKNWN NONE NONE 19 0 NORMAL
>M10 READY UNKNWN NONE NONE 8 0 NORMAL
>M11 READY UNKNWN NONE NONE 4 0 NORMAL
>M12 READY UNKNWN NONE NONE 2 0 NORMAL
>M13 READY UNKNWN NONE NONE 0 0 NORMAL

We thought about adding 1200bps support to the spec sheet, but decided 2400
was the lowest speed we were willing to support. And please don't start the
thread about wasting engineering cycles on 1200bps, it came along for free
with the 2400bps code. ;-)

--
 Marty Likier
 Product Marketing Mgr.
 marty@livingston.com