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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32 vs. Telebit: Which should I buy?
Message-ID: <1991May19.135613.11133@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 19 May 91 13:56:13 GMT
References: <1991May16.150546.26870@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> <1991May16.222927.29492@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6815@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
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conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes:

>Get a USR Courier V.32bis.  Elek-Tek quoted me a price of $599.  You get a LOT
>more for not much more.  Elek-Tek can be reached at (800) 395-1000.  They are
>in Skokie, IL, like USR -- I don't know if that means anything....

>It is very nice not to be limited by the Telebit's DTE rate of only 19,200 bps.
>I had been being choked by that for months, as most of my network traffic is
>quite compressible.  (Well, I suppose that only a little potential throughput
>was being lost most of the time, with a link rate of only 9,600 bps -- but it
>felt bad anyway....)

>With a link rate of 14,400 bps, the 38,400 bps DTE rate really gets used when
>moving compressible data.  By upgrading the two modems I have gotten 2X the
>thoughput of before with compressible data, and 1.5X the throughput of before
>with non-compressible data.

I agree.  Like I said - we get around 1720 cps sending news via USR V.32
with v.32bis daily (sending 10-14 megs a day)..

uucp spoofing and the PEP comes into play with noisy lines - but for
domestic use - and excellent on-line interaction - v.32bis is a much
better alternative

we (nstar.rn.com and zztop.rn.com) have a variety of PEP and V.32 modems 
and can give you averages for each modem

-- 
      Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
                         HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis 
                        regional UUCP mapping coordinator 
               {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}