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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: best type of modem
Message-ID: <2782.272BB567@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: 28 Oct 90 21:06:51 GMT
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In a message to All on Oct 24, Dale Signal (Dale.Signal@p0.f250.n772.z3.actrix.co.nz ) wrote: 

 >please anyone who knows about modems and the best to buy (cheapish as 
 >i can't afford to fancy a one)

 ... then I'm afraid that you can't afford a good one, either.

   In nearly ten years of searching, I haven't found a good, inexpensive 
modem. There are a lot of brands out there and I can't say for sure that 
they're all trash, but every time I decide that a particular brand of modem is 
good I am inundated with returned items of that brand.

   In my humble experience, the only 2400 that never disappoints is the Hayes 
Smartmodem. (Yes, that's the brand I own). 9600s rarely disappoint, but 
usually that's because the buyer is so overwhelmed by 9600+ bps performance 
that data quality at 2400 and 1200 seems irrelevant.
 

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