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From: garyc@dbase.A-T.COM (Gary Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes Smartmodem 9600 troubles
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.211318.22290@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 91 21:13:18 GMT
References: <3827.27d24b3a@hayes.uucp> <1991Mar5.093318.2146@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us> <3829.27d4d360@hayes.uucp>
Reply-To: garyc@dbase.UUCP (Gary Carter)
Organization: Ashton-Tate
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In article <3829.27d4d360@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:

>> If you want good UUCP performance over a regular dial-up phone line, you have
>> two choices: buy an non-Telebit modem and complain about lousy UUCP throughput,
>> or buy a Telebit and save money and headaches.  
>
>I strongly disagree.  A full-duplex modem such as V.32 or V.32bis is 
>going to give you great UUCP performance; I'd even propose that a 
>V.32bis modem might give better performance than PEP.  The only 
>benefit of PEP is smaller increments of data rate fallback on bad
>lines.  Other than this, Telebit has not been able to demonstrate 

The only benefit of PEP???

I have some small experience with PEP and V.32.  Calling around Silicon
Valley using a T2500 and a Microcom QX/V.32, occasionally I can't get
a V.32 connection; other times, my V.32 connection will hang up after
some length of time.  Most of the time, it works great, and is much nicer
than PEP for interactive use (such a running a text editor on the remote
computer) - except for those unpredictable dropouts.

But in my experience PEP NEVER FAILS TO CONNECT, and once connected,
PEP NEVER DROPS OUT.  It is totally reliable, industrial strength, a
year-in year-out proven workhorse.  Even for interactive edits, if the
job is a small one, I will log in using PEP rather than V.32, in spite
of the sluggish turnaround time, because of the absolute certainty that
it will just work the first time.  And for file transfers, I always use
PEP.

As for V.32, on the other hand, I simply cannot say the same.  It is
great, I use it a lot, but 99% just isn't quite the same as 100.0000.

PEP may be proprietary, and Telebit may show a lack of "pep" with the
standards committees, but that should not color an objective assessment
of its virtues.

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