Unable to select 38400 as Baud rate in Serial monitor.

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I'm using Arduino IDE 1.5.4 Under Windows 8, I have an Arduino Uno connected to the USB port.

For some reason I'm unable to select a baud rate of 38400 in the serial monitor window.

I'm going to kick myself when somebody suggests a simple fix.

Thanks

Jorgie.

2

why not using 115200,
it is the fastest way to communicate between IDE and Arduino giving the Arduino more time to do other things.

3

Because I'm preparing the Ardunio to talk to something else at 38400 baud.

4

makes sense,
You could use a terminal program like putty.exe (windows platform) to test 38K4

5

I am using other tools to test 38400 baud.

I'm asking the simple question:
Why do I not have the ability to select 38400 baud in the Arduino IDE?

6

The simple answer is that nobody build it.
The sources are available but nobody felt the urge to add it.

You can post an issue on github here - GitHub - arduino/Arduino: Arduino IDE 1.x - and hope that it will be picked up.