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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Needed: Least expensive and Interoperable modem
- Message-ID: <DL5L1C.rp@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4d8j1i$ldq@zippy.cais.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 04:12:48 GMT
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- Kevin Dunetz (cicat@cais2.cais.com) writes:
- > Could somebody recommend a good solid modem with a decent price (< $300)
- > for a dial in telecommuting service? There seems to be huge difference in
-
- Hmm, there's not too much that I'd recommend in that price range.
- If you could extend it just a tad more you could pick up some USR Couriers
- or Multitech MT2834BAs, both of which should work quite well for dial-in
- use (I'd recommend the Couriers myself, I've found that they work better
- when really crappy modems calls them). For under $300, you could try a
- Motorola Premier (you might have trouble finding one of those), or Power,
- which are reasonable modems.
-
- > price between 28.8 Kbps modems (from $150 to $450). I only need data
-
- The price difference is actualy more like $90 to $1250 or so, at
- $450 you're only at the level of mid-range modems, all the real high-end
- modems are $550+.
-
- > capability at 28.8(no fax). What are considered good features on modems
-
- You'll probably end up with fax whehter you want it or not.
-
- > that make them better than other modems. Is a $450 modem 3 times as
-
- It's usualy the features that you can NOT see that make one modem
- perform better then another. All v.34 modems can send data at up to
- 28.8kbps, if you have good enough lines. The differences comes when you
- do NOT have good lines. There are MANY optional features in the v.34
- protocol, NO manufactuer supports all of them, but in general the number
- of features supported goes up proportionally with the price of the modem.
- Now, whether or not a $450 mdoem is 3 times better then a $150 modem
- depends on what you're going to be using them for and how important
- performance and reliability is to you as compared to price. For some
- people, a $450 modem will be much more then 3 times as good as a $150
- modem, while for others it will hardly be any better at all. For dial-in
- service though, spending the extra $$ will almost certainly be worth it
- unless you want to spend a lot more time keeping the modems up and running
- right.
-
- > good as a
- > $150 modem or is there something built into the $450 modem that I don't
- > need.
-
- They're will almost certainly be features in a $450 modem that
- you wont need, like they're will probably be features built into the $150
- modem that you need as well.
-
- Anyway, in my opinion, I'd recommend that you up your initial
- price a little bit in order to keep the cost of running the modems down.
- In the end you'll probably end up spending less.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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