BB/Socket achieving rates 115K

Solution:

• How do I achieve baud rates over 115K with my BB/Socket PCMCIA card

  Most Windows applications offer baud rate settings only up to 115 kbps, because this is the maximum speed of typical serial ports. What if you need or want to transfer data faster than 115 kbps? The latest hardware and software of Socket’s Serial I/O Cards were designed to handle much higher speeds, up to 921 kbps. Many Windows applications can handle speeds higher than 115 kbps, although they do not list any values higher than 115 kbps in their options for baud rate configuration.Socket has created Hi-Speed COM Tools to enable you to use your COM port at higher baud rates in applications that only let you choose a baud rate up to 115 kbps. The program essentially lets you use one of the available baud rate values as a placeholder for a new baud rate of your choice. This is known as “mapping” a new baud rate to an available baud rate option.For example, if you need your device to work at a baud rate of 230,400 bps, most Windows applications will not list 230,400 bps as a baud rate option. Hi-Speed COM Tools cannot change which options are listed, but it does let you program one of the options to work at 230,400 bps (e.g., you can change the “300” bps option to actually work at 230,400 bps).Note: • Some applications (e.g., those for Windows 95, 98, and Me) may have timing issues when you set them to baud rates that are higher than they were designed for. • After mapping a baud rate to a new speed, you can re-map it back to its original speed.