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From: chris@alderan.uucp (Christoph Splittgerber)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem Speed
Message-ID: <117@alderan.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 03:13:19 GMT
References: <659@texas.dk> <1990Sep4.150259.12379@savant.uucp> <887@stsim.ocs.com>
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In article <887@stsim.ocs.com> fsb@stsim.ocs.com (Steve Brailsford) writes:
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>need some advice on what kind to get and what to look for.  I seem to
>see that the V.32 seems to be a general standard for that rate, is this
>true?  Should I bother with any of the other standards that might also
>come with that?  I also hear about a 19.2K modem called Trailblazer,
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While the V.32 is the more general standard for that rates, the Trailblazers
seem to become (to be) the de facto standard in the uucp-world. The
Trailblazers are quite a bit faster, especially when you transmit
compressed data (e.g. netnews) because the MNP-5 compression (used with V.32)
is quite useless with precompressed data or might even expand it.
If you worry about standards, I think the "Telebit Trailblazer T2500"
is a good solution Steve, because it supports them "all":
PEP, V.32, V.25, V.22bis, V.22, V.21, V.23, Bell-103, Bell-212.

Christoph