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- From: mergy@faludi.com (Jonathan Mergy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac Modem Recommendations Sought
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:41:42 -0800
- Organization: Faludi Computing
- Message-ID: <mergy-0602961041420001@i.faludi.com>
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- In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960205144149.5971B-100000@wong>, Ian Russell
- Ollmann <iano@scripps.edu> wrote:
-
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.)
- >
- > Please let me know if you had to buy a special hardware handshaking cable
- > for yours. Thanks!
- >
- > Ian Ollmann
- > Heather Hogg
-
- Go with a USR 28.8. As reliability goes, these are gems!
-
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- Jonathan Mergy
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