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From: elliston@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Elliston)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: No hang-ups
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Date: 25 Feb 91 19:37:28 GMT
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Reply-To: elliston@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Elliston)
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I plan to set up an X-terminal in my home connected by a pair of
high-speed modems.  Because initialization takes about 20 minutes over
a phone link, I would be crushed if my modems dropped the line often, so
I'm looking for a Mean Time Between Hang-ups of at least ten days.
Past experience indicates the line is fairly clean (I've held a 2400 bps
connection for over a week).

Does anyone have any recommendations for which v.32 modems hold their link
most reliably and which don't?  Is v.32bis more reliable?

I think asynchronous protocols are out of the question, because of the
nature of X-terminal connections.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
David Elliston