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The 25-pin parallel port on a PC. DOS and 16-bit Windows used the LPT designation, as did 16-bit NetWare clients, to send print jobs to a specific physical or logical parallel port.
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LPT Port - "Mike Feeley" wrote in messagenews:50208a8d.0307060837.13b1ca3b@posting.google.com... "Hooda Gest" wrote in messagenews:... "Mike Feeley" wrote in message news:50208a8d.0307051134.58818289@posting.google.com... In researching "Serial Overrun Errors" for my modem on Win98SE, P166 I read some posts that said they resolved them by simply hooking up their External Serial Modem via an adapter to the USB port. I was thinking of replacing my outdated Sierra 33600 PnP Modem with a good controller based v92 external serial modem such as an USR5686E and doing the above. Alternatively, you could just buy a 16650 based serial port card and use that. The 32 byte buffer (vs your current 16 byte buffer) should prevent those pesky buffer overruns. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, I've been out of work for 2 mos and need to minimize cost of upgrade to v92, and my P166 can't handle a cheaper PCI internal modem. I can barely afford the v92 modem. Serial to USB adapters are fairly cheap, if that would be a good solution. Is it a simple setup???Don't know, I've never done it, but it shouldn't be difficult. The adaptershould have drivers if the native USB drivers are not sufficient.I currently run Win98SE with an external serial modem on my home machine. Ihave had no great problem with serial port overruns, a few at most. YourP-166 should be able to handle a PCI hardware modem (USR makes one, as do acouple of others) though they seem to be difficult to find. Pricewatchshows some OEM versions (2976) for about $40 from USSA.COM--Hooda Gest"In a New York minute, everything can change..."
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