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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Telebit T1600
Message-ID: <39096@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 14:12:45 GMT
References: <9102081547.AA27293@bisco.kodak.COM>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM (Lord Bah)
in <9102081547.AA27293@bisco.kodak.COM> writes:

	I just saw the comp.newprod announcement of the Telebit T1600.  I
	spoke to the distributor mentioned in the announcement, and the
	specs seem to be: 9600 bps, V.32, protocol spoofing, no PEP.  I'm
	wondering whether the lack of PEP will be a drawback, i.e. is V.32
	more or less noise tolerant than PEP, are there other significant
	functional differences between PEP and V.32?

	The modem does other things as well: V.42 error control, V.42bis
	data compression, passwords and callbacks, etc.  The price quoted
	to me in small quantities was $499.

	    Jeff Van Epps    amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.com
	                     lordbah@cup.portal.com
	                     sun!portal!cup.portal.com!lordbah

Not clear where YOU are (given the PORTAL address); if you're in Silicon
Valley, feel welcome to attend the Feb.27 meeting of the AT&T Silicon Valley
UNIX Users' Group (of which I'm the present president) at which will be
featured Telebit Corp. and Los Altos Networks demo'ing various Telebit
products including the NetBlazer, T1600 and T2500 (along with live, hands-on
Internet demos).  Meeting details are carried in comp.sys.3b1, several of the
comp.unix.* newsgroups, ba.seminars, and the San Jose Mercury News.  Feel
welcome to send email for more info (and note my new email address).

As far as PEP vs V.32/V.42, you get what you pay for ... V.32/V.42 are int'l
standards and, as such, work quite well.  If you're doing a LOT of high-volume
traffic (such as Usenet newsgroup handling), you'd probably be better off with
a T2500 which supports ALL the standards along with PEP.  For more "normal"
stuff, a V.32 modem works just fine (I use several of both (PEP and V.32), and
each works fine for each's intended purposes); this is NOT a Telebit ad ... I
have Telebit, Digicom, ARK, and Ven-Tel modems, and test quite a few others,
most recently Microcom).

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]