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From: root@minixug.mugnet.org (MINIXUG-ONLINE System Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: T2500's and v.32bis -- rumors?
Message-ID: <910322597@minixug.mugnet.org>
Date: 22 Mar 91 22:42:38 GMT
References: <419@frcs.UUCP>
Organization: MINIX User Group Holland (NLMUG)   -  MUGNET  -
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paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) wrote:
>> You American egocentrist. Just try to run all that nice V.32 thingies
>> here in Moscow to get what the Real Life is. :-)
> 
> I agree.  V.32 (and especially V.32bis) might be nice, but if you
> want to know what PEP is all about, wait until you have a phone line
> that won't support V.22bis (2400 bps) reliably.  I had one until 
> a year ago, and I could get about 4800 bps with PEP, while my V.22bis
> modems (Octocomm, Racal and others) all dropped back to V.22 _if they
> could connect at all_.
I have such a line here.  I have an UUCP link to a machine, about 70
miles from here (also in Holland..).  He has to poll me at _1200_ bps
to get things over at all, and, most of the time, even that fails...

I set him up with my private T-1000 (I have a CellBlazer for this network
machine :-), and that solved _all_ problems.  He experienced the joy of
a Telebit talking PEP at 863cps eff. , where V.XYZ failed completely...
No need to say, that his order for a TB is in the mail... :-)

> Also, for trans-Atlantic (or trans-almost-anything) links, there is
> nothing (IMNASHO) to beat a Trailblazer.  I hope that Telebit can
> stay alive, 'cos I want some more T2500s (or whatever their newer
> PEP modem will be).
Yes.

Being the European backbone of a hobbyist network (see header :-), I
have many national, international and trans-atlantice (and, even
trans-pacific: Japan and Aussie) links.  Telebit won my modem contest
with ease- all other modems gave up sooner or later....

Fred van Kempen
waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org