re se serial port speed excerpts from cmu comp sys mac apr re se serial port speed by samuel john kass andrew sorry i got a bit technical to answer your question your mac se will have no problem whatsoever communicating with any modem that is bps or less and since modems that fast don t exist yet in a standardized form there s no need to worry actually a kbps modem using standard compression v v bis cna reach bps however i have not seen any server modems that have hardware compression i have been told the annex modems here break up at k but i have never seen faster than kbps a
