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In article <2A79BA5B.3A5B@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
|After hearing all of the horror stories about Telebit (which have since
|turned pleasant), I fugured it was finally time to spring for my own LPA
|Worldblazer upgrade.
|
|I called 1-800-TELEBIT. The friendly but unhelpful voice at the other
|end said the LPA program ended the end of June and anyone who had tried
|to order since then has been SOL.
|
|Is this is true? If so, I'll hang onto my (t)rusty dark-grey case
|Trailblazer, and save my money for when the modem cloners like ATI
|and Cardinal come out with cheap V.32bis. After all, I'd be able to talk
|V.32bis to all my UUCP neighbours who sank their money into Worldblazers
|anyway.
|
|If the operator was wrong, and LPA is still in effect, who do I talk to.
|And even then, I still wonder if I should bother.
|
|I was told that even under LPA, the price of a Worldblazer is $650US
|(>$750CDN) plus shipping. That makes the savings one gets from LPA less
|than $100 compared to the prices below.
|
|Is it all worth it? Now that some of you have actually been trying it
|out, does that extra money really buy a phenominal increase in UUCP
|throughput? If not, I'd rather put my money into more disk or better
|graphics. I like to think I'm not one for bandwagons unless they've
|got a proven value.
|
|FYI, here's $CDN dealer prices for some selected high-speed modems (from
|some of my suppliers' catalogues):
|
|Telebit Worldblazer		885
|Telebit T3000			779
|Telebit T2500			779
|USRobotics V.32bis		682
|Telebit Trailblazer		656
|ATI V.32			393
|USRobotics V.32			342
|Cardinal V.32			295
|
|quite a range...
|-- 
| Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
|         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
|    Was "Trouble" (from the Broadway Show, Music Man) the first rap song?



	Check out the Telebit QBlazer, a nifty lil'
	critter - 38.4 Kbps interface, V.32bis, V.32,
	V.22bis, etc, plus V.42 & V.42bis & MNP1-5.


	This modem is currently offered at US $299.00
	(according to a flyer I received), so give
	1-800-TELEBIT a call again.


	(...no, I don't work for Telebit 8^)


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  ,u,	 Bruce Becker			Toronto, Ontario
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