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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Sharing a modem on a LAN
- Keywords: modem share
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.042527.28813@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 04:25:27 GMT
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- rose@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (K. Rose) writes:
-
- >Have you ever used a modem over a LAN? Expensive "modem sharing" software
- >is available. Is this expense (CAN$400) necessary?
-
- >I am in a medical research lab. A collegue of mine is setting up a LAN to
- >connect the 12 PCs that we have. We have two 2400 baud modems and may buy
- >a faster one. As my collegue understands it, we have to buy some new software
- >($400) in order be able to use the modems from any PC on the network.
- >We have been using Procomm.
-
- >Our funds are very limited and this is something with which nobody here has
- >any experience.
-
- You'll likely need some hardware too. The problem is that *all* non-network
- communications software talks directly to the serial port *hardware*. Which
- means that the modem *has* to be attached to the computer that the program
- is running on.
-
- With programs like Procomm Plus Network version, the program talks to
- a driver program on your machine that talks to the modem via the LAN.
-
- Your choice is to have a modem on every machine where communications software
- is being run, or buying the software (and possibly hardware) to allow remotely
- accessing the modems on one machine (note that this machine will likely be
- unusable for anything else, the modem shgaring software will need full control)
-
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