Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: T1000 Message-ID: <.O.AKP9@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <585@fudd.dataco.UUCP> <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991Apr27.233044.22434@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr30.011012.12093@osh3.OSHA.GOV> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 14:04:53 GMT In article <1991Apr30.011012.12093@osh3.OSHA.GOV> chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) writes: > Why do you say over 2400 is a waste for on-line. Here, where you will > be waiting on screens to display is where I feel it makes the most > difference. Sounds like a user-interface problem to me. > It certainly is nice to reduce your LD bills with a high > speed modem for file transfers, but with the cost of 9600 bps modems > nowadays why buy anything else? Because you can get 18000 real bps over a good line with a TB+? Because you need to buy X00 modems and your budget is $X0,000? Because you have to make a choice between a 9600 baud modem and paying rent? Because the guy at the other end doesn't have one? Because you're talking UUCP or Kermit over the modem? Lots of good reasons. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"