Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!larouch!news From: jparnas@larouch.UUCP (Jacob Parnas) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Microcom Modems.....Are they any good? Message-ID: <1989Dec4.054323.9528@larouch.uucp> Date: 4 Dec 89 05:43:23 GMT References: <[25765e3f:99.1]comp.dcom.modems;1@nstar.UUCP> <89Nov30.204838est.58891@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@larouch.uucp (Usenet News Program) Reply-To: jparnas@larouch.UUCP (Jacob Parnas) Organization: Larouch Headquarters Lines: 28 In article <[25765e3f:99.1]comp.dcom.modems;1@nstar.UUCP>, akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: > >With this in mind, does anybody out there use Microcom modems? > >How do you like them? Are they easy to configure? How is their > > We have been purchasing a number of these modems using them at > our customers site for dial up support. First - the modems > are over priced costing as much as $1030 each (wholesale). Heck the > UDS Motorola V.32/V.42b modems are being sold at retail for $1140. > Second - the filtering on noisy lines is weak - causing aborted calls > on a regular basis. > > I would assume the T2500 would be a better investment for modems being > used in the Unix world - while the USR HST Dual Standard for those being > used in the DOS world (both modems support V.32). The reason that we use the Microcom's is they have the best compression currently around and you hook them up to your computer at 38400 baud. I've seen up to 33000 baud true throughput cating a file like /etc/hosts. You won't get that from a T2500. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jacob M. Parnas | DISCLAIMER: The above message is from | | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. | me and is not from my employer. IBM | | Arpanet: jparnas@ibm.com | might completely disagree with me. | | Bitnet: jparnas@yktvmx.bitnet \---------------------------------------| | Home: ..!uunet!bywater!acheron!larouch!jparnas | Phone: (914) 945-1635 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com