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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 12:44:10 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Better Idea for Netster Bundle.
- Message-ID: <13213416@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <1813.6573T775T1436@canit.se>, Oskar Sundberg <gary@canit.se> wrote:
- >
- > > If it only were that easy. Sure, SLIP at 14400 baud sucks dead hamsters
- > >through garden hoses. Twice the speed would do better, but there are two
- > >major problems:
- >
- > > 1) The bundle is sold with the A1200. The serial port of the 1200 doesn't
- > > go quite that fast. Some v34 modem manufacturers suggest setting the
- > > DTE rate to 115,000 which is far too much for the port hardware to
- > > work reliably. Some lucky folks manage to squeeze that speed out of
- > > it and still get reliable data transmissions. The majority is less
- > > lucky, so there.
- >
- > Hmm... So the modem in the bundle isn't the famous PCMCIA modem AT is
- > planning to sell? The A1200 could handle 115,200 baud easily through that
- > port.
-
- The hardware I have seen is not a PCMCIA modem, it's a stand-alone
- external device. But you can never know, might be that the local subsidiaries
- choose to include PCMCIA modems with their bundle. Speedwise it would be a
- good idea.
-
- > > 2) v34 is still kinda new and brittle. I might be prejudiced, by so
- > > far I haven't see any modem manufacturer produce an inexpensive
- > > v34 modem that behaves in a consistent and reliable fashion.
- > > With consistent and reliable I mean:
- >
- > Yes, but there are plenty of modems that don't have any of these problems,
- > especially since v34 has had time to mature now.
-
- That's the question. You still see major modem manufacturers churn out
- rev.1 firmware v34 modems on which they should stick large labels "trouble
- is my business". There are always bright examples, but from my point of view
- the v34 implementations should be given some more time to mature.
-
- > And, it was ATs choice what
- > modem to include, so why not include a _good_ 28,800 modem?
-
- The decisions were made. Might be that the first batch of bundles
- will ship with v32 modems, might be that the next one ships with v34
- modems. You can never know.
-
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