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From: mhw@wittsend.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Michael H. Warfield)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32 will dominate the marketplace (Was: Re: Which is best?)
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Date: 11 Nov 88 18:40:37 GMT
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In article <1245@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>.......  PEP 19.2 vs V.32 9600 only
>apears to be a 2-to-1 speed difference, agregate throughput discounts
>the PEP substancially (for many applications I can think of) towards
>V.32.

     Yeah is probably closer to 3-1 than 2-1.  Whatever arguements you want to
come up with, the bottom line is that the MEASURED agregate through-put for
uucp is substantially higher with uucp spoofing.  Without it your pissing into
the wind at any baud rate.  And full duplex doesn't buy uucp anything.

     You're right about the protocol spoofing requiring match-ups at both ends
and enhancements being a hassle, BUT at 2-4 Meg per link per day on uucp I don't
want that trailblazer screwing around with anything else.  Let it do it's job
doing what it does best.  I would never buy one for a BBS or for interactive
use but you still can't beat it in a fair fight on uucp (or even an unfair
fight).

>....... that buying a PEP modem is buying into a
>dead end street (now).  Your installed base may go beyond a "growth
>slowdown" and start to actually shrivel up.

     What is a dead end street is wasting money waiting for a promise that has
yet to appear.  Even if something new came along today and totally blew away
the Trailbazers so completely that all of usnet changed over, this one is still
totally paid for!  The dead end street would be to continue to pay higher phone
bills waiting for a pipe dream to come true.  Ignoring state of the art now
(current Trailbazers) just because you see something better down the road is
a never ending death trap.  There will always be something better down the
road.

     As far a my installed base going into a "growth slowdown", my limiting
factor is the power of my mini not my modem capacity.  I can feed more data
down that Trailblazer than I can store in my spool directories.  I have
opennings on GALBP for more news sites but I won't lose any sleep if I don't
get another.  I have enough work as it is that I get paid for, I really
don't need to be donating more, thank you.

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