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- From: millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Milleville)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac Modem Recommendations Sought
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- Date: 6 Feb 1996 01:07:01 GMT
- Organization: University at Buffalo
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- Ian Russell Ollmann (iano@scripps.edu) wrote:
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- : We are interested in buying a 28.8 modem for use with a Power Macintosh
- : 7500. This modem will be used for remote login to a unix system, at first
- : via the usual text only mode and soon thereafter by PPP. We also need the
- : modem to support Apple Remote Access 2.0. Faxes are relatively
- : unimportant. We are looking at the Global Village Teleport Platinum, the
- : Supra28.8 (the good one) and a US Robotics Sportster.
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- Both the Supra and the usr are good choices, from everythin I've
- heard. Personnally, I'd buy the Supra. I've heard fewer complaints
- about that modem than the usr.
-
- : We are particularly interested in how dependable these three are for PPP,
- : Zmodem and ARA. ARA is a must. We have noticed that not all manufacturers
- : supply ARA scripts with their modems, and would like to be sure that a
- : modem would work for this purpose before we buy it. (I have a GV TP
- : Platinum. It works for all of this stuff, but I am not thrilled with its
- : dependability or stability on the line.)
-
- Then why are you considering buying one?
-
- : Please let me know if you had to buy a special hardware handshaking cable
- : for yours. Thanks!
-
- It should come with one.
- : Ian Ollmann
- : Heather Hogg
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- Andy Milleville
- millevil@eng.buffalo.edu
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