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- From: us007540@interramp.com (Jeffrey A. Bourque)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac Modem Recommendations Sought
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 10:49:21 -0500
- Organization: Hemsing Advertising, Inc.
- Message-ID: <us007540-0702961049220001@ip140.birmingham.mi.interramp.com>
- References: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960205144149.5971B-100000@wong>
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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
-
- On the recommendation of several friends who use it, I originally bought a
- Sportster 28.8, and was dissatisfied, and was never able to connect at
- speeds higher than 14.4, and that was difficult. USR's customer support
- was not helpful in my case. I bought a Suprafax 28.8, and was able to
- connect at 28.8 immediately. The display is excellent, and the error
- correction always keeps me at my fastest possible connection. Now that
- I'm switching to ISDN, I wish Supra had a ISDN "modem".
-
- That was my 2% of a greenback.
-
- Regards,
-
-
- Jeff
-
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