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- From: david_yi@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (David Chae Yi)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,misc.forsale.computers.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster si ???
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 15:34:34 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
- Message-ID: <4gamsq$lnj@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- References: <g5john.824263975@cdf.toronto.edu> <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960215145149.4462B-100000@optim.ism.net> <g5john.824628973@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <g5john.824628973@cdf.toronto.edu> you write:
- >Chad Payne <chad@split.com> writes:
- >
- >>> >A Sporster SI is an RPI based modem. RPI based modems do not have built
- >>> >in error correction and are essentially junk. They are bought up by
- >>> >neofites who don't know any better, and simply buy them because they are
- >>> >cheap. I plead and beg with everyone, DON'T BUY RPI MODEMS. Because people
- >>> >are buying them the manufacturers keep making more. The more they make the
- >>> >more headaches the whole industry has. It is a big mess. Vote with your
- >>> >$$ and buy real modems.
- >
- >Ok, go ahead and pay for hardware which can be cheaply simulated in
- >software.
-
- <snippage>
-
- Why bother with software, when it can be done cheaply in hardware?
- 14.4 non-rpi modems are cheap. I rather go with a $40 generic modem than
- a rpi brand-name modem. From my experience, rpi modems can't do SLIP/PPP
- well at all, if they connect in the first place.
-
- Uninformed people can be 'suckered' into buying a rpi modem simply
- because they don't know it's limitations. IMHO, the limitations and
- _potential_ problems aren't worth the few bucks.
-