Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!shaman!jiro From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: 38.4 kbps for $169!? Message-ID: <1991May8.033125.1127@shaman.com> Date: 8 May 91 03:31:25 GMT References: Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Organization: Shaman Consulting Lines: 28 In article swansonc@grendel2.acc.stolaf.edu (Chris Swanson) writes: > [Edited out] > o Uses a 9.6 kbps data pump (proprietary, *not* V32) > > o The compression algorithmns are software and run on the PC's > not in the modem's firmware (the 9.6 base rate pump is in > firmware, however). > [Edited out] > Has anybody worked with this modem? While it is proprietary, > it would be a cheap way to get some descent SLIP/PPP performance (if > the throughput is as good as they say). Since the PPP/SLIP connection > is ususally between two fixed sites, proprietary modems, while not the > best, would be ok (so long as they don't go south a month after the > company does :) and considering the price .... If the compression algorith is in software, you might have a teensy problem getting it to run with your SLIP/PPP driver. Some of the modems with software compression require you to run *their* telecommunications application. If the emulation is in a loadable driver, though, you might have a fighting chance. In the end, you get what you pay for. - Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem