Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!cwjcc!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Who cares what it is, if it saves $$?
Keywords: save money
Message-ID: <1398@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 02:47:15 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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All this modem comparison and argument seems to be overlooking the
most important thing to business.  Namely, that of saving money.

My site happens to have chosen a T1000 Trailblazer, but we might
have picked a USR HST or even a Codex v.32 modem.  We bought what
we can talk with our uucp neighbor most cheaply.  Since our
neighbor had a Trailblazer, that is what we got.  If he would have
had a USR that is probably what we would have.

Inside a business where a network is self-contained, it doesn't
really matter what the modems are, as long as they save money for
the time being, versus something else.

I'm not too worried about aour choice to use T1000 modems for high
speed.  They've cut our uucp feed time to about 1/8 of what it used
to be.  Given the sale price, we'll have saved the cost of the
modem in reduced phone bills in a little under 3 months.  Even if
we had paid the list price, the modem would have paid for itself in
less than 6 months.

So, if some really nifty keen v.32 modem comes out a few months
from now, I wouldn't feel to terrible.  If the v.32 were that much
better, we'd buy it.  In the three month interim with the T100, we
wouldn't have been any worse off than if we would have just stuck
with our old v.22 and not used the T1000 at all.  Of course we'll
have a "free" T1000 to boot.

By the way, we do better with our T1000 than we did with a v.32
modem for netnews anyway.  Why would I want to switch to a v.32
modem so I could have standard, albeit slower transfers?

Anybody with DSP experience know if that TI DSP chip in the T1000
is up to the task of implementing v.32?  If so, the upgrade to v.32
for the T1000 shouldn't be too expensive.  The upgrade from level 3
to level 4 was about $100 for the older Trailblazer models.  I
popped the cover off the Codex v.32 modem.  There were a whole bevy
of DSP chips in there.  I think there were 6, but they were an
older part type.

--Bill