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From: wjb@edsr.eds.com (Bill Biesty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: modems
Summary: Zoom modem ok. recommended
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.054532.26653@edsr.eds.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 05:45:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.175639.18226@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: wjb@edsr.eds.com (Bill Biesty)
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In article <1991Mar15.175639.18226@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> hull@uicsltc.csl.uiuc.edu (Andrew W. Hull) writes:
->I am interested in buying a low cost modem for my Mac SE.
->Does anyone know about "Zoom Modems"?  They advertise a
->2400 baud modem for $99.  Is this a good buy?  If not,
->what else should I consider?
->
->Thanks for any advice.
->
->andy hull
->
->hull@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

I have a mac SE and a Zoom modem.  Works fine.  I've had it for a year.
I paid $129 for mine 2 years ago so $99 is a good price.  They also
make a combo fax modem which I recently got a flyer in the mail about
which you might be interested in.

My version came with communications software called QuickLink II which
I found to be extremely buggy though it has features like cripting I
wanted.  i switched to Zmodem which I downloaded off of GEnie (with
QuickLink II :-)).  I haven't had any problems with Zmodem.

The only thing I can't tell you is how it stacks up to other modems.
Every modem review I see fails to include the Zoom modem.  I would 
typically get 200 cps at 2400 baud on a local call to GEnie during
downloads.  It doesn't have MNP-5 (on the fly data compression).

Bill