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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: V.32 vs. Telebit: Which should I buy?
Message-ID: <1991May16.150546.26870@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 16 May 91 15:05:46 GMT
Sender: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout
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Well, the initial solution was obvious.  I thought that I'd buy a
Telebit 2500 and get both.  Until I compared the price with the
contents of my bank account.  :-(

At any rate, I need a cheap high-speed modem.  It's primarially for
UUCP work with a local site that I'm currently exchanging 1.5-2 MB per
day with.  That site has T2500s on the lines, so it can handle either
V.32 or Telebit protocols.

The primary advantages of the Telebit seem to be the higher transfer
rate (in part due to UUCP spoofing) and better support under Unix (I
run SCO Xenix 286 2.3.2).

The primary adavantages of the V.32 seem to be that they are better
for interactive use (I have several interactive users, and one of the
computers I call regularly has a couple of V.32 modems as well as a
Telebit) and they are slightly cheaper.

Does anybody have any recommendations on what I should get?  What kind
of UUCP transfer rates can I expect from each kind of modem?  Is
anybody out there selling Telebits really cheaply?  What about V.32
modems?

Thanks for the advice.

cjs
-- 
Curt Sampson            | "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of
curt@cynic.uucp         | all systems in the network is not known anywhere."
curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca |    --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)