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From: tron@mrecvax.UUCP (Carlos Mendioroz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Direct modem line from USA to France?
Summary: Telebit TB+ 4.0 has its problems
Keywords: Telebit International_calls Uucp
Message-ID: <449@mrecvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 14:37:09 GMT
References: <297@amanue.UUCP> <7651@cup.portal.com> <576@sbsvax.UUCP> <509@motsj1.UUCP>
Reply-To: tron@mrecvax.mrec.ar (Carlos Mendioroz)
Organization: M.R.E. y C. Bs. As. Argentina
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This is just about telebit TrailBlazers Plus. We have a couple of them here
that we use to contact uunet and pyramid for mail and news.

The troughoutput is about 5kbps in the mean, with peeks at 8kbps but I
wouldn't say they are inmune to noise or line conditions.

We use uucp, g-protocol and no flow-control. In this configuration, they do
the great job transmiting batched compressed news and are a little lazy
when sending mail as uucp sends lots of litle files (control and data).
May bsmtb help.

Now for the odds. When we call early in the morning (say 3-5 am) they work
fine but if we try to call during the day, we seldom get a nice result.
Moreover, uucp almost everytime fails at startup (while establishing the
g-protocol) or as the first file is being transmited. This all aplies to
calls to uunet as the calls to pyramid seems to work all over the day.

Carlos G. Mendioroz
That plain.