3Com 56K manual Controlling Data Rates, Serial Port Rates

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CONTROLLING DATA RATES

	This chapter contains information about
	■	Serial port rates
	■	Connection rates
	■ Controlling Link Speeds with &N and &U
	■ Setting DTE Rate to 230 Kbps
Overview	You can set the Business Modem to use fixed or variable serial port rates
	and fixed or variable connection rates. Serial port rates pertain to data
	transferred between your computer and the Business Modem.
	Connection rates pertain to data transferred between the Business
	Modem and the device at the other end of a connection.
Serial Port Rates	You set a fixed serial port rate to get the highest possible throughput and
	the best performance. Set a variable rate to allow the Business Modem to
	match the connection rate.

Your software must support fixed or variable serial port rates.