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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 9600 Baud Modems/Mac/White Knight
Keywords: Modem 9600 Recommendation Wanted
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Date: 23 Apr 91 19:31:52 GMT
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ric@netcom.COM (Richard Bretscheider) writes:

>I'm considering upping my telecommunications speed and wanted to get
>some recommendations from informed people who aren't looking to get
>paid for it (ie sales reps, sales people, etc.)  :-)

>My current configuration is a Macintosh Plus (4 meg) a Practical
>Peripherals 2400 modem, and White Knight (whatever the current version
>is this week.)

I have a 4 MB MacPlus with WK 11.12 and a 9600/19200 v.32 dual standard US
Robotics modem.


>Will I really see a difference in paging speed?

Yes

>What 9600 baud modems do _you_ recommend?

The two popular ones are Telebit and US Robotics.  See below

>Will White Knight cut it?

You bet.

>Is v.42 necessary/helpful/worth it to cover future needs?

It depends on who you plan to talk to.  Your work may have no plans in
the next 18 months to support v.42 so you'll be hanging out there by
yourself.  You might also want to consider who else besides your work you
will be talking to.  Many Mac BBSs do not support Telebit protocol, and
you might want to consider the modem protocols they support.  In
general, I have found that UNIX is Telebit and Mac is US Robotics
(Courier family).  However, our facility also supports some US Robotics
dialin ports.  Check with your sysadmin.


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     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12