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From: leech@threonine.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: V.42 bis (was Re: Telebit T2500 - are they a good deal?)
Keywords: telebit T2500
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Date: 3 Oct 90 17:39:12 GMT
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In article <sR1Fq1w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>,
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
|>protocol for 2400 and 1200 bps modems.  V.42bis is a compression
|>protocol that can increase speed up to four times over a V.42 link.

	How well does V.42bis work for interactive sessions (editing,
reading news, etc.)? I saw a 2400 baud modem with V.42bis advertised in
MacWeek for $200, which would be attractive if it could deliver near-9600 baud
throughput.