Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!kohler From: kohler@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (kurt kohler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: 9600 Baud Modems/Mac/White Knight Keywords: Modem 9600 Recommendation Wanted Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 23:08:16 GMT References: <1991Apr22.213813.20570@netcom.COM> Sender: @lynx.CS.ORST.EDU Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobs.cs.orst.edu 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 believe a 9600 Baud v.32 modem would speed up my dial-in access to >my UNIX host. In particular, I want to speed up paging through news. >The questions: What are my bottlenecks (Mac Plus, Software, Modem) and >how do I break them. >Will I really see a difference in paging speed? >What 9600 baud modems do _you_ recommend? >Will White Knight cut it? Well right at this very moment I'm typing on a 4 Meg Mac Plus with White Knight 11.12 running to a Microcom QX/4232hs V.32/V.42 modem and it is definitely a LOT faster than 2400. The biggest improvement is in download times, but there is a difference in reading news as well. At least this is true when the news machine is lightly loaded. When things get really busy it's the response time of the system that appears to limit things, not the comm speed. As far as a recommendation... the Microcom is pretty nice (although the manual is horrible) but it's pretty spendy. On the other hand the prices of all V.32 modems seems to be coming down rapidly. Any information you find that's more than a few months old is probably totally out of date. By the way, the modem is on loan from work and I'll be kicking and screaming when they want it back. It's *very* easy to get spoiled. I've noticed that I've been doing a lot more ftp'ing than I used to. Kurt Kohler kohler@jacobs.cs.orst.edu