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From: idallen@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR Robotic 2400 -- Serious problems
Message-ID: <4624@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 00:40:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 00:40:17 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Jan-87 03:22:00 EST
References: <369@csustan.UUCP> <10002@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Reply-To: idallen@watmath.UUCP (Ian! D. Allen)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: USR has serious problems when other modems work fine

I tested one USR rev 243 modem and one USR rev 242 modem through our
University's SL-1 switch onto an FX (Foreign Exchange) line to Toronto
(75 miles from Waterloo here).  We called UTZOO's Racal-Vadic 2400 bps
modem and the noise rate was an average of about 1 junk character per
second, in bursts of, say, 3.  No other modems had this abysmal
aversion to the line.  A friend tried the rev 242 modem from his
country exchange (about 20 miles away) to the University here, and
every time it mistook the 2400 bps handshake for 1200 bps and wedged
itself.  I was so sad.  It had wonderful features, and a great price.
It just didn't work for our most important application.  Sigh.  We've
got QUBIE Basic Time 2400 bps modems now.  At least they work.

I wrote a big review of the rev 242 Courier last year.  At 2400 bps you
could wedge it by going off line, asking for help and interrupting the
help menu, and then going back on line.  Some other things were wrong.
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo