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connecting 2 pc with serial cable. - more speed
Name: Raz Date: November 22, 1999 at 03:30:56 Pacific
Comment:
I Connected 2 PC with serial cable. but the max speed I can use is : 115200 becuase it's the max speed in the com2 modem property. - but still the parallel cable is faster ... I also Saw That in the com2 port property I can inc the speed up to 921600. - but how can I use it ?
Name: Al Date: November 22, 1999 at 07:46:07 Pacific
Reply:
Raz, If you measure properly, you will find that you are not really connecting at anywhere near 115200. Serial port connection is the slowest way to connect using DCC, because serial cable only sends data over one wire in cable, and parallel uses 10 wires at once. Al
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Response Number 2
Name: harun kurtoglu Date: September 20, 2000 at 07:19:36 Pacific
Summary: I am trying to connect 2 PCs with a crossover cable. Both have a Network card and one is running Win 98 (PC1) and the other one is running Win 2000 (PC2). I haven't done anything special but install t...
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