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From: David@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Direct modem line from USA to France?
Message-ID: <7752@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jul 88 22:00:38 GMT
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) wrote:

>In article <7651@cup.portal.com> David@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I'd recommend against using a V.22bis modem for international calls...
>>... it isn't very fast ... and is very susceptible to line noise.  Look at
>>V.32 modems instead.  ...10x in price... 4x the speed... less susceptible
>>to noise...
>
>Or Telebit Trailblazers, which are virtually immune to noise -- the only
>effect is that the throughput drops off -- and are likewise fast.  The
>UUNET folks say that Trailblazers will run 6kbaud on phone lines that are
>virtually unusable for voice.

No doubt about it, the Trailblazer is a nice modem.

Having said that, I will now go on to say that it would take threats of
a rather personal nature to get me to buy one.  Why?  Because the
Trailblazer is quite definitely a non-standard product which only talks to
other Trailblazers (excepting at 1200bps or whatever).  When and if there
are a dozen vendors making modems that work with the Trailblazer at high
speed, then I'll buy it.

In my opinion, the only good reason to buy a non-standard product is if
you are able to toss it in the trash in a few years.  Because usually by
then it isn't supported by anyone, including the original vendor.

I know that there are a lot of trailblazers used to connect the USENET
sites, and that's fine for them, just not fine for me, because I hate
tossing stuff in the trash in a year or two.

David@cup.portal.com
David McCord
415/424-5644