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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: supra fax modem
- Message-ID: <14869@claris.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:24:43 GMT
- References: <WEIGERT.92Jul22170751@etlhit.etl.go.jp> <WYATTW.92Jul22082514@loowit.wr.tek.com> <Brt4w6.H11@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <mills.712108677@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com> <1992Jul26.153753.1574@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> <mills.712202523@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>
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- In article <mills.712202523@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>, mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills) writes:
-
- > I can run a dumb 2400 baud modem with no error correction and get no noise
- > on the lines 150 miles away. So the lines are not that bad. I've had noisier
- > lines within 5 miles.
- >
- > So my conclusion is that for long distance (150 miles which is not that far)
- > the supra cannot deal with it. For DATA the best it can do is
- > 2400 with error correction. For FAX it can't do ANYthing yet in distance.
- >
- > MY primary purpose it local 9600 data and I think it will be ok for that.
- > But I did expect it to be able to better than 2400 at long distance at least
- > sometimes. I also expected that it would do FAX at any distance at some
- > speed.
- >
- > Can a $300 modem do coast-to-coast DATA at 9600 or 4800
- > Can a $300 modem do coast-to-coast FAX at 9600 or other speed.
- >
- > Can the Supra do the above?
- > Can a $700 modem do the above?
- > Can any Modem do the above on non-conditioned lines?
-
- I routinely do coast-to-coast data at 9600 with my SupraFAX v.32bis. I don't
- use it for FAXing, so I can't comment on its FAX capability.
-