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A few questions for you modem experts.  I'm evaluating a
2400 baud modem I just bought (30 day return policy) and
want to know what to look for.  How do I tell good
performance from bad performance?  For example, on file
transfers, what percentage of bad blocks to good
blocks is acceptable/normal?  What is good throughput
at 2400 baud, how many characters per second, etc.?

My old 1200 baud modem was nearly perfect (an occasional 
bad block, never an aborted download, never a dropped 
carrier).  This new one has not given me any garbage or 
scrambled characters or dropped connections in three or 
four evenings of calling, but I did experience one aborted 
download (aborted after 10 bad blocks) against about a dozen
successful 100% efficient file transfers (and these are big
files -- over 100kbytes).  The aborted download was the 
second file I downloaded, so I've been a little nervous 
since.  I didn't see the aborted download happen so I 
don't know what the cause was (call waiting was disabled, 
BTW).  Throughput has been consistently 233 cps in
Batch YMODEM protocol.  

Aside from this aborted download, things have been fine.
Do I have anything to be concerned about (regarding the 
above aborted download incident), or is this just "new
buyer Angst"?

Your E-mailed opinions and answers to the above
questions are most welcome. 

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David Barnes
UUCP: {pyramid,sri-unix,ingr}!apd!dbarnes     415/852-2365
USPS: Intergraph APD, 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA  94303
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