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- From: bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us (Bill Jones)
- Subject: Re: Good/bad 14.4 modems?
- References: <1992Nov10.135235.8104@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: Cambria Mail and News Gateway -- Columbus., OH
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:24:07 GMT
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- Paul S. Kilroy (kilroy@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
- : wissner@beech.mcs.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner) writes:
- :
- :
- : |I currently have my Linux box set up for dial-in access so that
- : |people in the area can check it out and download whatever files
- : |they want. I'm using my trusty old 2400 and it's just not fast
- : |enough for people to really get some good downloading done, so I'm
- : |in the market for a 14.4. There's a number of them out,
- : |and I just wonder if any of you would be kind enough to recommend
- : |what's a good or a bad one to get? And will a 14.4 work OK with
- : |the uugetty from the gettyps package on tsx-11? That's what I've
- : |been using.
- :
- : i have a 14.4kb boca with fax and it works perfect..
- : _very_ inexpensive too
- : i havent tried it on a getty yet, but dial out works great...
- :
-
- That's strange. I have a Boca 14.4K with fax and hate it. Sometimes it
- hangs up -- sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't hang up, I have to do a
- hard reboot to reset the modem. And sometimes even that doesn't work -- it
- takes two hard reboots and a complete power down.
-
- I called Boca about this and their respose essentially boiled down to -- "If
- you aren't using the software we shipped with the modem under DOS it isn;t
- our fault the modem doesn;t work properly." My advice is to avoid Bocas
- like the plague.
-
- On the other hand, I have a Cardinal 9600bps modem (no fax) which works like
- a charm. Absolutely no problems under any software (minicom, kermit, UUCP,
- etc.)
-
- Bill
-
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- Bill Jones
- bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us
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