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From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
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Subject: Re: 9600 baud modems
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Date: 18 Jun 91 21:31:32 GMT
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rab@speech1.cs.cmu.edu (Robert Brennan) writes:

>I am looking for a new pair of 9600 baud modems.  I have been using two
>Trailblazers very successfully but we need to purchase additional modems.
>They need to be as reliable and as fast, even faster if possible, than
>the Trailblazers, work reliably with SLIP and ideally have fax capabilities.

I use 3 Intel 9600EXs, one for dialin/dialout and the other two on slip
links.  They work realy well and unlike most other v32 modems they will
try to retrain up as well as down after line noise.  There is a rumor
that Intel will do an upgrade to v32 but I don't know for certain, you
might try calling them about it.
They do support v42bis and all the mnp trash, er, I mean protocols, and
using v42bis on text files I see ftp throughput along the order of
2.8 K / second (damn good in my book) with the interface locked at
384000 bps.

>So, is the Trailblazer still the way to go or are there others that are
>better?

For slip the PEP stuff is useless.  If you are doing a lot of UUCP, especaily
overseas (satelite or anything else with long delays) then PEP is the
ONLY way to go.  I've not played with the t1600 but if my old TrailBlazer+
is any indication all TeleBit modems should be first rate.

Mail me if you have any questions on the Intels, I know them fairly well.

Cheers,
-m
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