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From: tankus@hsi.UUCP (Ed Tankus)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: modem evaluation - Telebit Trailblazer
Message-ID: <335@hsi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 07:52:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 07:52:22 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 23:11:10 EDT
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Organization: Health Systems Int., New Haven, CT.
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> In article <1703@sdcsvax.UUCP> brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) writes:
> >It looks jumpy.  In the several days that I had the
> >modems hooked up, I found the 1-3 second delay quite disconcerting and
> >annoying.
> 
> I was expecting this to be the case.
> 
> >With uucp, these modems work really well.  However, the uucp transfers
> >weren't much faster than those at 480 char/sec.  I've seen (somewhere
> >in the dark past of the net) a note that showed that normal uucp gained
> >very little speed running above 4800 baud.  
> 
> 4.3 BSD uucp has a couple of alternatives to the normal "g" protocol
> which may be worth trying. The "f" protocol is intended for use over
> an X.25 network and may be better able to deal with delays.  The "t"
> protocol is intended to let you run uucp over a TCP network.  We use
> it here as a kludge for transferring news and it runs really fast. It
> would be interesting to find out if either of these protocols worked
> better with the Telebit.
> 
> >since 9600 baud modems are supposed to be just around the June corner
> >at about $700 each, or so the salescritters would have me believe.)
> 
> I've seen the CDS V.32 full duplex 9600 over dialup modems but they
> are about $3500. Also, they are sync only, although you can get
> converters I assume.
> 
> 	phil
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Does anyone know how well the modem works (if at all) with XEN*X (any flavor)
or MS-D*S?
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