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Oldster - 30 Apr 2005 20:21 GMT

I have a direct cable (back-to-back) connection between COM ports
between a desktop and laptop machines both running XP Home. This runs fine
at 115200 bps. I was wondering if there was any way of speeding this up?
There was a way of changing normal(!) modem speeds to 921600bps at one time
or so I believe.

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Richard G. Harper - 30 Apr 2005 21:49 GMT

Probably not. The UART chip in the serial port has an upper speed limit and
AFAIK that's about it for most of them.

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> I have a direct cable (back-to-back) connection between COM ports
> between a desktop and laptop machines both running XP Home. This runs fine
> at 115200 bps. I was wondering if there was any way of speeding this up?
> There was a way of changing normal(!) modem speeds to 921600bps at one
> time or so I believe.

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