Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan
From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Need 9600 for severe noise environment
Message-ID: <32@stanton.TCC.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 88 14:35:02 GMT
References: <872@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca.
Lines: 24
Summary: Trailblazer works fine for us

In article <872@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>, del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg) writes:
> I am in the position of having to come up with a recommendation for a modem
> to Taiwan, R.O.C., and would like to use a 9600 baud modem if possible.
> The line noise to that little country is simply astonishing, and trying to
> relate specifications and test results to reality is difficult. On voice
> communications it is necessary to raise your voice to be heard above the
> background noise given the weak signal strength (faint voice).

I recommend that you use the Trailblazer. We do to Singapore and even with
the satelite delays, local loop noise, total carrier drop-outs and generally
really sh%^^y line quality the Trailblazer works flawlessly. I don't see any
real comparison between a Trailblazer and a non-PEP modem in the sig-to-noise
arena - the Trailblazer can be set so that almost no line screwups will cause
it to drop the line - it will just work around the problems or wait until
things get good enough to send data again. No other dial-up modems we have
tried in the Singapore to US dial-up environment have been able to hold the
line for more than a few minutes; the Trailblazer has held the same connection
without a single failure yet (about 3 weeks of 8hrs/day error free on-line time)

-- 
Steven P. Donegan
Sr. Telecommunications Analyst
Western Digital Corp.
donegan@stanton.TCC.COM