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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit -- thanks
Message-ID: <824@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:42:58 GMT
References: <626@ddsw1.UUCP> <4560002@hpihoah.HP.COM> <1004@neoucom.UUCP> <2905@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
Lines: 35
Summary: Our units are flawless at all baud rates.

In article <2905@fluke.COM> jeff@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Stearns) writes:
>HOWEVER, they are tepid performers at 1200 and 2400 baud.  This shows up
>most dramatically when the line levels are low or noisy.
>
>This isn't an isolated event.  We use a cut-rate long-distance carrier to carry
>our calls to the Bay Area; the UDS modems could usually handle them adequately
>at both 1200 and 2400 baud.  The Trailblazers simply cannot.  Transmissions are
>so garbled that one can barely recognize that the destination computer is
>running at the proper baud!  

I can't agree here.

We have the BA4.00 units, brand new, and they are flawless -- on noisy lines
or quiet, at any baud rate.  Our lines here are *horrid* -- loud audible 
noise on voice calls, crosstalk, etc.  Before the Telebit outgoing calls at 
*any* baud rate were a 50-50 proposition as far as getting a usable 
connection goes.

Not any more -- I *never* have had a "bad" line with the Trailblazer.  When
it's not in use and I have to dial out guess which modem I request.....

In fact, they make our 2400 baud MultiTech 224AH look like a toy --
something I didn't believe myself.  The MT224 has proven itself to work on
both bad and good lines -- lines which make our USR Courier 2400's barf,
spit, and disconnect.

Our Telebit runs fine over lines that even the MultiTech can't handle, and 
at low baud rates too (300-2400).

Perhaps you *do* need that PROM upgrade.

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