Originally posted by MileJunkie:
"...at 9600, FT is just too slow..."
Boy, I must be real old - still remember communicating at 2,400 bps.... 
Maybe just not an early adopter. I remember my first modem. It was 300 bps. It had no internal dialer and no carrier detect. You had to manually dial the phone and then flip a switch on the modem to bring it online once the other modem answered.