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From: louis@cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Real cheap fax modem
Summary: Reliable 2400 baud modems
Keywords: Is this thing any good?
Message-ID: <956@vax.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 23 Feb 91 18:27:54 GMT
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In article <18966@brahms.udel.edu>, bern@brahms.udel.edu (Bernard E Runk) writes:
> very happy with it ever since.  I bought an an external, 2400bps U.S.
>Robotics for work;  I don't like it as well as the Online's. 

I run a Xenix system here at home and have a few friends who call in at
2400 bps. I have tried two cheap modems, once called SMART ONE, and also
a Practical Peripherals PM2400SA.  With both of these I was getting
frequently the message "serial ERROR: Loose cable or Garbage on line,
port shut down", just after the ring came in, and the caller would not
get the login: prompt, and the computer would not answer any more
calls until after I killed the getty and restarted.  After trying
these two modems, both of which work fine on my PC, I borrowed a 
Gandalf 2400SAM.  This cleared the problem.  So I want to buy a
new, very high quality modem.  What would you recommend?  Money is 
a problem.

Thanks

-- 
Louis Schmittroth
Athabasca, Alberta