How do I set up my serial ports for higher speeds?

# 12 How do I set up my serial ports for higher speeds? Noteworthy communications programs and utilities

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Once you get everything working, you may want to check out these more advanced programs, all are available on the usual FTP sites.

- Seyon - X based comm program
- xconn - X based comm program
- Minicom - friendly serial communication program
- Procomm - procommish comm program with zmodem

These programs offer more features that just `kermit` alone, including telephone directories, auto-dialing and so on.

- Another useful program is `term`. `term` multiplexes many connections over one serial line. It is somewhat similar to SLIP, and offers some SLIP functionality. These include `rlogin`, `telnet`, `ftp`, `ncftp`, `finger`, `rdate`, `xmosaic` and `tredir`. `tredir` is a special program which lets you redirect remote TCP/IP ports to your local machine. This allows for remote NNTP, and SMTP access. The good thing about `term` is that is runs entirely in user space, meaning it requires no kernel support, or sysadmin support (like SLIP does).
- `screen` is another multi-session program. This one behaves like the virtual consoles.
- `callback` is a program that will have your modem call you back immediately from where you just called.
- `mgetty+fax` handles FAX stuff, and provides an alternate `getty`
- Other things can be found on `sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Serial` and `sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/comm`. These are the directories where all the serial type things are kept.

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