Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!osh3!chip From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: T1000 Message-ID: <1991May01.024430.17081@osh3.OSHA.GOV> Date: 1 May 91 02:44:30 GMT References: <585@fudd.dataco.UUCP> <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991Apr27.233044.22434@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr30.011012.12093@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <.O.AKP9@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin. Lines: 46 In <.O.AKP9@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. Well, while reading this news I had to wait for the screen to fill. This is not a user interface problem. There was just a screen full of data (your message) to display. What can a program do about that? >> 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. Well, I was not disputing the value of a TB+. After all, I'm using a T2500 right now. I was disputing the statement that, if the use was interactive that "a 2400 bps modem was good enough". Why buy a 2400 nowadays was my statement. As far as 18000 real bps, I still have yet to see it. I haven't even gotten close yet. As for budget and paying rent, that's another good reason not to buy a 2400 bps modem. Where "the guy at the other end not having one" is concerned, that's a good reason to stick with the V.32 and V.42 (bis) modems (I know, Telebits have this). I find that PEP is not everywhere. This also goes for the protocol spoofing. I've never found that to be a VERY compelling performance boost either. Good, but not great. Are you actually advocating the purchase of a 2400 bps? Or are we in agreement? -- -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki chip@oshcomm.osha.gov