Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!uw-nsr!uw-warp!dennis From: dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Request feedback on PC Industries 2400 Baud Modem Message-ID: <287@uw-warp.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 88 07:31:11 GMT References: <880228102106.33@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov> <5127@pyr.gatech.EDU> Organization: The Warp, Seattle, WA Lines: 41 In-reply-to: ccasttd@pyr.gatech.EDU's message of 4 Mar 88 01:29:35 GMT Yeah, I had the same thing happen. I ordered a pair of their 2400 baud modems in October or so, and waited around until December when they sent me a useless letter. In January I called them and they said they were very sorry; they had lost my order, and they would be sending my modems right away. I never did get those modems, and I never did cancel my order (I was paying with a University P.O.), but if I ever see those modems, I will be very surprised. I called 1-800-USA-FLEX and ordered some reasonable little 2400 baud modems for $175 each. I received them in 4 days. Some netters warned me that these modems might die or be flaky or whatever, but friends and I have purchased a total of 11 or them over the past year or so and they're all going strong. My only complaint with these modems is that they don't seem to be capable of a complete reset when someone hangs up. So if someone calls in at 1200 baud, the next person calling will get stuck with a 1200 baud answer tone instead of 2400. With Unix, this is not a big problem, since you can write a getty shell script that just blasts a capital A at 2400 baud out to the modem every time it starts up. This sets the modem so that it will then answer at 2400 baud. With VMS, I'm not quite sure what to do. I used to think that maybe I just needed to buy the deluxe model (2400EC, with MNP error correction) and it would support a complete reset when DTR toggles, like the manual says, but then I bought a couple of the 2400EC's, and they have the same problem. I haven't yet had a chance to test how well they work in MNP mode. I've finally decided to call the customer support people at Comark (the vendor) and see if they have any suggestions. To summarize, for use with a PC (where you don't care about dial-ins too much) or a Unix system, these modems seem to be quite reasonable. For use with VMS or any system where you require unattended mixed 2400/1200 baud answering, they might not be so great. -- Dennis. ------- arpa: uw-nsr!uw-warp!dennis@beaver.cs.washington.edu usenet: {ihnp4|decvax|...}uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp!dennis