Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!! Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 04:37:18 GMT References: <29138@know.pws.bull.com> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 93 ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: I don't mean to flame the person who posted this to the net. Actually his posting this really is a public service, and I really am happy he did post this. Non-standard modems should be eliminated(mine included). > COMPUCOM SPEEDMODEM...THE AFFORDABLE HIGH SPEED MODEM And is also non-standard, which in 6 months will mean you can't call anything because the new Sprinty Brand modem is selling for $110! > * $169...unprecented performance to price ratio (introductory price) Not a bad price. > * IBM internal card supports 8 COM port addresses and 5 interrupts Whats an interrupt? IBM internal only..Bummer...Whats a com port address? >in performance to v.32/v.42bis modems. These modems typically cost $500+ on th >low end and range well above $1000. The Champ also has a big brother with Well, compair performance to V.32, but V.32bis is out now, and is 14400 raw speed. And you can call Compuserve with it, and PC Pursuit may one day support V.32 locally..And even Telebit makes a V.32 compatible modem(T2500)! >Although 9600 bps modems have been available for a number of years, only a few >percent of the modems in use today operate at this speed. Their cost is >prohibitive to the average PC user. CompuCom has changed that. They are >making high speed modems affordable to ALL, not just the few percent who can >afford them. The SpeedModem is a technology-price breakthrough. It is like >buying a 2400 bps modem and getting 9600 bps FREE! Or, as one customer said, >"buying a Ford and getting Ferrari performance". What about us poor old Amiga owners? Hum, US Robotics have been selling their HST model for years, and is the only standard in BBSing today. V.32 will be the only choice in a year though -YES I ADMIT IT, I SEE THE CHANGE COMMING-, actually everyone from this point on probably should look into a V.32 and see if has support locally before buying anything, since you can always use a V.32 to get on Compuserve, and you can also sell it later on. >BBS System Operators (sysops) strive to achieve the broadest possible >constituency for their service. Thus many multiline BBSs support more than on >high speed modem type. Even so, 90% of their users still call in at 2400 bps. >They are stuck at 2400 because they can't afford high speed modems. Sysops ar >beginning to realize that the SpeedModem is the only opportunity for most of >their users to join the ranks of the high speed Top Guns. Thus they are addin >it to their service. Although the SpeedModem has been in production only a >short time, over 200 BBSs are online including EXEC PC, the largest direct >connect BBS in the US. They have over 180 incoming phone lines. Foreign >sysops are also enthusiastically supporting the modem. Not this SysOp. Wow, 200 BBS's, U.S. Robotics had 10,000 last time I checked. And that was before they sweetened the sysop deal in March. Even Intel is sucking up to Sysops with a V.32! The thing is, that there is nothing worse than using your high speed modem, and calling someplace else to find they do not support your modem type. Its depressing to know Compuserve has a local V.32 line and that my HST can't connect to it...A standard modem is the only way to go TODAY. I plan on getting a US Robotics V.32bis/HST DUAL STANDARD so I don't get screw my users today, and don't screw future users of my BBS. V.32bis WILL be commonplace in a year. Also, here is MY BBS's figures: Calls broken down by CPS: 30: 0 120: 3 240: 30 960: 27 And you want to know something, I had 0K downloaded today!!! 0K!! Alot of people just call and read UseNet with their HST's.. 60 callers, with 57 of them above 1200 baud, and 2123 minutes used (Which is equal to 35 straight hours of connect time - I have two lines into this beast). I can not break down minutes used by each baud rate yet though :( Seeing how I have 27 HST callers a day, I could say they are allmost as common as 2400 baud. I also invite anyone to call and check the log, its in my GFiles section, and is avaiable for public viewing. I also don't ban 300 baud modems, just no more 300 baud callers! This thing is D.O.A., especially since all local Amiga BBS's to me are allready V.32 or an HST or Dual Standard HST(7 bbs's total, not one is 2400 as of last month!). And another thing is that its not avaiable for the Amiga, according to this message. Final note, lets call this thing the 20/20, or the No-Doz..or Black Beauty, since the SpeedModem sounds corny as hell. -- 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.