Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!! Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 22:10:35 GMT References: <29138@know.pws.bull.com> <9149@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu><9154@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 38 s142075@fred.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes: >dan the man zerkle says: >>o There's a catch. No, I don't know what the catch is. However, >> there must be some reason that this thing sells for a third of >> the price of comparable equipment. If the "standards" people >> could have come up with something that offers the same perfformance >> at a considerably lower cost, why didn't they? > >Same reason people buy MACS: becuase they're stupid. > >The catch is that they are non-standard and the company that makes >them is slow in delivering. > >full-duplex 9600 bps is just about the dumbest thing I ever heard of. >Anyone who NEEDS to send AND receive at full speed (as opposed to >1 9600 bps and 1 450 bps channel) please respond. I'd be glad to hear >what all that extra technology is being used for. For one thing, the HST doesn't see to do very well with protocals like the G protocal used for UUCP where it sends an ack and nak after every packet sent. Its always trying to allocate the high speed channel back and forth. If they would have added support for these protocals in the firmware like the Telebit did, they might have sold more modems to people who are UUCPing..I don't think the Telebit is full duplex, but it sure works alot better than the HST. Another problem is ASCII sending to something that echos it back to you, your only getting 450CPS, or a bottleneck somewhere. Plus its getting so cheap, why not have full duplex 14400. USR mailed me the new sysop package, and v.32bis wasn't much more than the HST($50 I believe). -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.