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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP modems
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 09:16:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 09:16:36 1987
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Keywords: MNP

In article <377@cogent.UUCP> mark@cogent.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>MNP as a protocol has failed to meet our needs consistently.  Due to several
>aspects of UN*X that MNP design neglects and/or conflicts with, we have never
>gotten an MNP modem to work on our UN*X box.  We went to a different protocol
>altogether for error correction and it worked uright away.

>I personally think that MNP is not very good at all and should be abandoned
>by the industry as a standard.

Are you certain it's MNP, and not the modem itself, that's giving you problems?

I had major problems getting my original MNP modems (from Black Box) to work 
with my UNIX boxes; I eventually ended up returning those modems for a refund
(one of the _good_ things about Black Box).

I then switched (on the recommendation of John Gilmore (gnu@hoptoad) and
several others) to US Robotics 2400e MNP modems.  I've got several of
them now, on UNIX boxes (Suns), PCs, my Amiga, and dumb terminals, and
they work just beautifully.  I spend at least 4-6 hours per day logged
in to one machine or another through them, and have no problems.  I have
no reservations in recommending the US Robotics 2400e modems. 


-Brent
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