Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!mes From: mes@sequent.UUCP (Mike Seyfrit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Modems for a IIfx: Internal, External, Etc. Keywords: MODEM Message-ID: <34676@sequent.UUCP> Date: 9 May 90 17:20:53 GMT References: Reply-To: mes@crg3.UUCP (Mike Seyfrit) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 25 . Ed Berard asks about . modems for high traffic use. on his macIIfx (I'm jealous!). I have used both a trailblazer/telebit type modems for communication between the company machine and my mac at home, both for file transmission and for simple communications. I like both the error correction they provide (no more {{_ from even noisy phone lines) and the MUCH greater file transfer rate that you get when you set the appropriate protocol switches. (They understand kermit, uucp, xmodem, etc. and do the checksum or crc in the modem so the ACK or whatever gets sent much faster than waiting for the computer to process and send it.) I've had no problems with using these faster modems after I've gotten them set up, though, as always, MACs don't do quite the same handshaking as other computers, and it takes a little fiddling to get it right--especially when you're of the software and not the hardware persuasion! [Hi, Ed. I remember you from my Ada days @ Verdix] -- ===== Mike Seyfrit phone:503-241-4121 | \ mail:625 NW Everett #228 = net:{uunet,sun,tektronix)!sequent!mes | \ Portland, OR, 97209 = ===== org: Sequent Computers, Beaverton, OR | / \ =======================