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From: jeff@xanadu.com (Jeff Crilly N6ZFX)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit T2500 - are they a good deal?
Keywords: telebit T2500
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.175605.1292@xanadu.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:56:05 GMT
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In article <1990Oct4.032952.21956@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:
>In article <4100@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> met@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Marc E. Tarpenning) writes:
>> I am thinking of buying a Telebit T2500 modem and am a little concerned
>> about the number of posted problems with this modem.  Should I buy one?
>
>I think the frequency of problem reports is more a reflection of the number
>of people using them than the number of problems per person.  It *does*
>take a while to learn your way around the zillions of parameters you
>can diddle, though.
>-- 
>	-Colin


Marc -- Colin is correct.  However, other high speed modems like the
USRobotics HST-Dual, also have zillions of registers with semi-confusing
purpose.  We have a collection on T2500s and they all work fine.
We also have a collection of HST-Duals and they work fine too.
You need to figure out what you need.  If you just want V.32 then
any modem will do, and you must decide on other factors like service.
If you have uucp connections then I suggest you get a T2500 and
make use of PEP and uucp spoofing.  If you call BBSs all the time
then maybe you should consider a HST-Dual (although, in the little
BBSing that I have done, I haven't seen much of these -- mostly
2400 bps stuff).  Also, keep in mind that the major online services
like compuserve and genie will be supporting V.32.

Jeff Crilly (N6ZFX)
AMIX Corporation  2345 Yale Street  Palo Alto, CA  94306
jeff@amix.com, {uunet,sun}!markets!jeff, N6ZFX@N6IIU.#NOCAL.CA.USA