Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!husc6!popvax!conrad From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: V.32 vs. Telebit: Which should I buy? Summary: Buy modems in pairs if you have that luxury... Message-ID: <6822@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 19 May 91 21:34:43 GMT References: <1991May16.150546.26870@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> <1991May16.222927.29492@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6815@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard University, Office for Information Technology Lines: 44 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <6815@husc6.harvard.edu> conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes >> In addition, I expect to have many fewer strange little problems. It is clear >> from the bulk of the traffic in this newsgroup that mixing brands and models >> of modem often leads to headaches... > >Of course this means if you're doing UUCP, get a trailblazer... since that's >what most of the people doing UUCP are still using. Yes, try to match modem pairs as closely as possible. My point was really more that if one had the luxury of having the whole dialup network under one's own control one ought to consider seriously not upgrading by parts, but rather wait- ing until one could afford to upgrade the whole thing at once. And when doing that, consider asking for consecutive serial numbers like I did. I *know* that this is impractical advice for most people, but there must be others out there like me who have network bridges involving only two modems.... You may be right about using a TrailBlazer if you are doing UUCP, but it looks from the traffic here that there are various little inconsistencies even when going Telebit to Telebit using PEP when different models or firmware versions are involved. Mind you, it seems that most of these can be gotten around, by posting something here and having Greg answer with the magic S-register values. And I have found both USR and Telebit tech support to be very good, and both companies to be reasonable about sending ROM upgrades. (I have had to do this with both brands in the past....) I was just expressing my pleasure at having two basically _identical_ modems now.... I don't want to fuel the USR vs Telebit fires, but I think I prefer the USRs. It sounds like I might say otherwise if I had to exchange data over noisy over- seas lines (very noisy, I think) or had to exchange UUCP data only with other PEP modems (especially not the V.32-also type). >Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; >Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?" +---- C o n r a d C . N o b i l i ----+ | | | Harvard University | Internet: conrad@harvarda.harvard.edu | | Office for Info. Tech. | conrad@popvax.harvard.edu | | Information Services | BITNET: CONRAD AT HARVARDA | | Technical & User Services | CONRAD AT HARVSPHB | | 1730 Cambridge Street | voice: (617) 495-8554 | +---- Cambridge, MA 02138 | fax: (617) 495-0715 ----+