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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 11:22:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Ian Cartwright <ianc@4dcomm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial Driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980519112124.27171E-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <000101bd82c6$3240e090$6600a8c0@ian.batcave>

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The bottleneck is in the UART chip, not the driver.  Get a 16650.



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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Ian Cartwright wrote:

> I am currently using my FreeBSD box as an Internet Gateway (what a relief to
> be able to use my old 486 instead of dedicating a pentium with gobs of
> memory to run MS Proxy or WinGate!!). I am using a USR Courier I-Modem for
> my ISDN connection. My question is, are there any serial drivers out there
> that support a speed of 230400 on a "standard" 16550A serial port? I can use
> the default sio driver but it tops out at 115200. I think it may be causing
> problems downloading large files from the internet because the com port is
> running slower than the modem.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any light you may be able to shend on this!
> 
> Ian Cartwright
> ianc@4dcomm.com
> 
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