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- From: andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What's a good 14400 modem??
- Message-ID: <PZR7PB2w165w@infopls.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:22:12 CDT
- References: <1992Aug24.143532.8721@lowton.rn.com>
- Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL
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- mark@lowton.rn.com (Mark Powell) writes:
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- >
- > In article <1992Aug14.174602.19312@unislc.uucp>, larsen@unislc.uucp (Steve La
- > > I know that this mas been asked before, but I am looking for a good,
- > > reliable 14400 modem, and I was wondering what everyone thought about
- > > which one is the best. The main ones I have been looking at are
- > > Supra, Boca, and Zoom. I have heard good and bad about all of them. I
- >
- > From my experience and the experiences of others, gleaned from this group,
- > the Courier HST DS v32bis is a very reliable modem. It has a low latency,
- > high throughput, holds onto lines well, connects well especially to other
- > Couriers (something that can't be said of Supra). Basically it is a
- > quality modem, which has a quality price. If you want cheap, spend "cheap".
-
- My feed has two Supra 14.4K's (I think) and an unkown v32bis (maybe a
- Sportster?? It connects very fast.) I have a Courier v32bis. VERY often
- (>50%) it takes two training attempts to get a connection. Sometimes 3. If
- it goes for 4, it usually hangs up. Also, I occasionally get a non-error
- correcting connection. I have to hang up then since his getty doesn't
- understand that speed (he runs 38400 if error correction is on, and
- connection speed if not.)
-
- It may or may not be line noise, but I typically don't see any pauses due
- to retransmissions, or my ARQ light blinking.
-
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