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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem (PM2400SA)
Message-ID: <4WjHaqy00Vs480ZEd=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 16:13:42 GMT
References: <582819876/dtw@ME.RI.CMU.EDU>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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In-Reply-To: <582819876/dtw@ME.RI.CMU.EDU>

> From: ephraim@Think.COM

> In article <1994@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes:

> >The PM2400SA modem is one of the least expensive 2400 baud modems
> >being sold for the Mac.  It should be.  It doesn't work very well.
> >It works fine at 1200 baud, but who buys a 2400 baud modem to run at
> >1200.  At 2400 baud this modem is intolerant of line noise.  I would
> >recommend that people AVOID THIS MODEM.

> And I would recommend exactly the opposite.  I use my PP2400 SA every
> day at 2400 baud.  The signal quality is excellent.  The overwhelming
> majority of transmission errors that I've seen were due to my wife
> picking up another phone.  The PP2400 SA (the one I've got, anyhow) is
> a far better modem at 1200 or 2400 than the Applemodem 1200 which I
> gave away after buying the PP.

> Have you considered the possibility that you got a bad sample?  Did
> you try to return or exchange it during the warranty period?

A friend of mine also purchased the Practical Peripherals modem and wound up
returning it the next did since the amount of line noise problems she
experienced made it simply unusable

I would also recommend avoiding this modem.

                        --M

Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University
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