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From: sveinare@Lise.Unit.NO (Svein Are Martinsen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: CompuComm CSP modems 9600???
Message-ID: <1991May6.172357.17554@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 6 May 91 17:23:57 GMT
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I have been using the speedmodem for only a few days now, but I have already been very 
pleased with it. 

The service from CompuCom is more than excellent. I have never been in touch with a "nicer"
and efficient company. They sent me my modem just the day I ordered it, however it took
some time by mail over to Norway. 

The modem is working fine even over a very noissy internal network!
The fact that you can only speak to similar CompuCom modems at 9600 bps doesn't bother me
very much. I think you will have to search for quite some time if you are going to find even a 2400 bps modem with MNP5 and BOTH send and recieve fax (at 9600 bps) (which the CompuCom Speedmodem Combo also has).

Besides, due to the low pricing policy of CompuCom I think there won't be too long before it becomes a kind of a standard like the other 9600 bps modems (v.32, USR, Trailblazer).

The CompuCom Speedmodems (especially the Combo at $279) is so good and affordable that I couldn't afford not to buy it. Here in Norway I would have had to pay more for even a simple 2400 bps modem without MNP5 and without fax.


Joern D. Busch from Germany seemed to have minor problems connecting it to the public network (article 5299). All I had to do (in Norway) was to cross two of the wires, before 
connecting it to the wall-outlet. 

PS!

  The best BBS for CompuCom 9600 capabilities I have been connected to (until now) is the
   "Sputnik" BBS in England. 
  More and more BBS's seems to support the full capabilities of the CompuCom Speedmodem.
  The list (that I recieved with my modem) of such BBSs is already quite long (mostly US     BBSs,  but according to the documentation disk more than 100 international ones are
  available). However I would be glad if anybody could send me a list of EUROPEAN BBSs 
  currently supporting the Speedmodems 9600 facilities.

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           Svein Are Martinsen
           Email: sveinare@idt.unit.no
		  sveinare@lise.unit.no
		  sveinare@solan.idt.no
           Computer Science/Telematics, NTH, Norway