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Started by Bryan Beecher
Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:42
modems
Author: Bryan Beecher
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:42
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:42
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Our budget was released today, and we have some money to upgrade the modems we have been using on sharkey and mailrus (Telebit TrailBlazer+'s). We'd like to put one or two modems on destroyer for UUCP use. (I'm not sure what we'll do then with the old modems; perhaps keep them for other uses or sell them off.) Does anyone - especially those that will be dialing in - have a suggestion as to what we ought to buy? What's a good modem to buy? What's a good company from which to buy it? If I buy it from company X, will they give me a good warranty or service contract? Can they give me a cable so that I can plug it into one of my Sun-4/350 serial ports and it'll work just fine? The easier it is for me to buy, install, and maintain, the better. We can spend up to $500 for a modem, and we can buy up to two modems. Thanks in advance for the advice. -- Bryan Beecher, U-M Information Technology Division (+1 313 747 4050) Domain: Bryan.Beecher@umich.edu Path: ..!uunet!mailrus!bryan
Re: modems
Author: Steve Simmons
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:00
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bryan@notorious.rs.itd.umich.edu (Bryan Beecher) writes:
>Our budget was released today, and we have some money to upgrade the modems
> . . . We'd like to put one or two modems on destroyer for UUCP use.
>We can spend up to $500 for a modem, and we can buy up to two modems.
Well . . . if you can go $500 each and can only buy two, you might want
to look at the WorldBlazer. I've been pretty happy with mine so far --
it's talked to every v32, v42, and PEP modem I've got access to. At
v42 it easily beats PEP transfers, and supposedly Turbo-PEP will do even
better.
As interactive v32 modems Telebits are only so-so (thus sayeth the guys
at MorningStar, who have tested most modems *extensively*). The win
is that if you only have 2 ports, the WB gives you the widest variety
for those ports.
--
"I was disqualified when I mooed at a propane tank mistaking it for a cow."
Patrick E Fleming, pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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