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Subject: Re: RPI Modem and AOL
Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:24:48 GMT
Organization: TGF Internet Services
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>Get yourself a REAL modem, and ask to make sure it doesn't have the RPI
>chipset. If you get an external one, be sure your serial card has a 16550
>UART,  and be sure you get a hardware handshaking cable so that the
>hardware will handle the flow control.

  Remember, RPI stands for "return product immediatly!"  A good modem
  is no different than a good keyboard or display.  Any one will really
  piss you off if it's not as good as can be.
>
>I'm sure there is someone out there who will post a "what-I've never had a
>problem & I connect at 155,700 with my 14,400 RPI modem", but again, I
>have to say that this will be the exception to a rather hard & fast
>rule-software flow control just can't handle high-speed connections.

  I think you're safe here.  I have an RPI modem, and I've even been offered
  $100 for it if I install it.  It is not worth the agravation.  My next-door-neighbor
  wanted it, but i kinda like friends, so I refused.  Tonight, my son said that he
  had a friend that wanted it...  If I were a hunter I'd use it as a clay-pidgeon.
  *PULL*...
>
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/   Keith R. Williams
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/   Burlington Vermont