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From: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests
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Date: 29 Nov 90 07:14:17 GMT
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In article <326@comtst.UUCP> mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) writes:
>...inbound and outbound, domestic and international with
>no problems from the modem. Are we just lucky, or did Telebit get a
>bad review?

Telebit ALWAYS gets a bad review.  All such tests in Byte and PC
Magazine always have bad things to say about the Telebits in
impaired-line situations.

The catch is that they don't use noisy phone lines.
They use equipment to _simulate_ bad connections.  I suspect that this
does not match reality.  What they really should do is ship one of type
of modem to India and then try to connect to it.

All their fancy test equipment means nothing.  In the real world, it's
the Telebits that keep the data flowing.