Can i just buy a 16650 chip at, say, fry's, and just put it in my card?(Siig
Twincom Pro)
Jacob Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Serial ports
> On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:00:49PM -0800, Jacob Joseph wrote:
> > Hello. As you should all remember by now :) I have a bitsurfer pro.
> > Recently I switched ISPs so I have unlimited 2B access now. Anyways, my
> > serial port is a 16550A UART, which, as I understand things tops out at
> > 115.2K. This is a far cry from the 128K my line can do, so my question
is
> > how I can get the full bandwidth. Is there a way to "overclock" the
serial
> > card(the bitsufer can do 128k serial speed)? Other than that, I should
be
> > able to switch the chip in the serial card to a 16650 or 16750 right?
Where
> > can I buy just the chip and how much do they cost?
> >
> > Jacob Joseph
>
> Jacob:
>
> some serial ports (add-in cards, if not built-in ones) can be
> jumpered to multiply their internal clock so that instead of a 115200
> limit it is twice or even four times that.
>
> The add-in cards from byterunner.com seem to allow this (at least
> according to the docs for the one I have), though I've personally not
> used one in that mode.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Fred
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