Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: GVC 9600 V.32/V.42bis/MNP5 - good or bad modem?
Message-ID: <80.283BB3AA@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Thu, 23 May 91 01:09:53 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, Bill Irwin (bill@twg.bc.ca ) wrote:

 >We're about to buy one of these for evaluation and I was
 >wondering if anyone has had any experience with them.  The 
 >price of about CDN$500 seems very reasonable for a modem with 
 >these features, but if it is a troublesome modem it is expensive 
 >even if it is free.

   I had a pair of these for about a week of evaluation, but the models I had 
were V.32/V.42 (no V.42bis data compression nor V.32bis 14.4 kbps).

   They were no more difficult to configure than USR's high-speed Couriers 
(though I had a head start with them because I'd already wrestled with them 
before and knew what the docs *really* meant whenever they said something 
cryptic or seemingly pointless), and certainly far easier than a TrailBlazer.

   Then again, you're less likely to find many people who claim to have the 
proper configuration and Dialers entry for the GVC.

   Bottom line: they did what they claimed to be able to do, though it took 
me a while to figure out how to make them do it.  Their features aren't 
exactly state of the art, either.  Nonetheless, they seem decently priced for 
what they've got and I don't think you're any worse off with the GVC Super 
Modem 9600 than you'd be with any other modem which offered the same 
features.
 

--  
Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
root@zswamp.uucp or ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root
602-66 Mooregate Crescent, Kitchener, ON, N2M 5E6 Canada (519)741-9553
"He who claims to know everything can't possibly know much" -me