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From: seg@ingres.com (scott e garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Beware the Telebit T18pc
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.225401.28138@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 91 22:54:01 GMT
Organization: Ask Computer Systems, Ingres Products Div.
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In case you were considering the t18pc, think about this.  I bought one and
discovered after much wasted efort that the (soldered-on) 8250 UART was
keeping my throughput at around 70 cps.  The only solution was to replace
it with another UART (I chose the 16550, of course).  Well, after a year,
it started developing strange problems with responding to AT commands.
Seems possible that a trace was damaged.  Telebit wants $290 to repair the
board because of the modification (otherwise they get $150, by the way).

Also, in case you were wondering, the T18PC is not upgradeable to V.32
capability.

	-Scott E. Garfinkle

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