I manufacture a device to send marine electronics NMEA data streems.  I found
out about this while I was testing one after installing Win95.  The unit has DIP
switch settings for 1200-9600 baud.  I spent an hour trying to figure out why
one would seem to transmit at 4800 baud no matter what the DIP switch settings.
I seem to remember that it worked no matter what I set the terminal program for.

It has been a while, but I seem to remember that Procomm running in a DOS window
worked correctly.

Agnes en Henk Tobbe wrote:

> Brian Kraut wrote >.  When I have a serial output from a PIC that is not
> >at the correct baud rate I don't want to think that everything is working
> O.K.
>
> Thanks for telling me. I am using the Windows terminal programme (WIN 98) to
> communicate with my PIC's.
> How far does that adjusting go.... I have noticed that when I am way off the
> proper speed I get mistakes and funny characters on the display.
> And where does the adjusting take place? In the terminal programme itself or
> in the serial driver?
> There is also a nice small thing arond called "Terminator" Does that have
> the same problem? Would have when the adjusting is donein the driver.... Who
> knows exactlay what is going on? I have some more testing to do at various
> bps rates and have not (yet) got a DOS machine available for that.
> Henk VK2GWK