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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Another 9600 protocol!
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.185806.16457@qualcomm.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 18:58:06 GMT
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In article <6965.27D9BD8E@zswamp.fidonet.org> root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
> >I think you're underestimating the effect of the fact that 
> >this modem is available now and give you 9600 bps for $169,
>
>   It *would* give you 9600 bps, if there were any other CompuCom modems 
>around!

If you live in a large city.  Otherwise, forget it.

>   The latest press release I got from CompuCom listed the BBSes known to 
>carry their modems, and there were about 125 on the list... a quick scan of 
>the 10,000 member FidoNet nodelist suggested that there are over 3,000 HSTs on 
>FidoNet alone, and I'm sure the BBS lists maintained by Hayes and USRobotics 
>is *orders of magnitude* longer!

That's an outdated list.  The latest one has 300 on it.  Seems to be growing
rather quickly...

> >I saw one of these things, using their Dynamic Impedance 
> >Stabalization, connect without line noise [...]
>
>   Considering that they have error correction and would have corrected any 
>noise, how can you be sure that DIS had any effect on the line at all?

Two ways: turning off error correction (which can be done with any of the 
modems) and observing the speed with error correction.