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From: Metalist@cup.portal.com (Bryan Jones Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: high-speed modems for ST:  HELP!!!
Message-ID: <30737@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Jun 90 04:58:28 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I need help.

I have noted that some ST bbses support baud rates up to 14.4K or 
nineteen.2K  [close to 2OK baud!].  

What modems are the best for these purposes?  How shall I say this.. uh..

I heard a while back that some high-speed modems were not compatible with
other high-speed modems due to discrepancies in data compression and/or
"kick back baud" rate due to line noise.

Has this problem been corrected?  If I were to buy a 14.4K/2OK modem for an
ST computer, would it be compatible with all the ST BBSes that use 14.4K/2OK
modems?

If not.. what are the modems to buy?   How much do they cost?
I would also appreciate:

-time to transfer a whole disk [seven-hundred and twenty K] at 24oo baud on
an ST computer

-time to transfer a whole disk using ninety-six hundred baud

-time to transfer a whole disk using 14.4K baud

-time to transfer a whole disk using nineteen.2 K baud


If someone were to buy a modem with a baud rate support of up to nineteen.2 K
would this mean it could support:

3oo, 12oo, 24oo, ninety-six hundred, 12ooo, 14.4K, nineteen.2K, and ???

Thanks for all the information!  I really need assistance in this matter, for
I am very curious and curiosity killed the cat as you all know.

Please, leave me MAIL!!  I will post summaries to the NET in one week, so
please respond quickly.

Thanks,

[send mail to this address:] 

Metalist@cup.portal.com