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Subject: Re: Modems
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Date: 8 Jan 89 07:11:03 GMT
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In <8901031358.aa02600@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> C70301RC@WUVMD.BITNET (Rob Caton) writes:
>I am finally replacing my 300 baud modem for a 1200 baud one.  Any suggestions
>for an inexpensive one?  Has anyone had experience with the Practical
>Peripherals 1200SA?  I can get one for 89.95.  Please give me your thoughts,
>comments, opinions, etc.  Thanks!

	One suggestion is that you don't get a 1200 baud modem! I would
suggest that you get a 2400 baud modem AT LEAST...I believe we are now
entering the "9600 turnover" also...Meaning that "average Joes" are going
9600 nowadays...Very slowly now I will admit, but it's starting.

	You can even get a 2400 baud modem for under $100 if you look
around hard enough {I -think- I've seen ads for them mail order under $100}.

	By the way, I have an EasyData 2400BD modem that works quite well
for me...

	The only problems are: an audible click from the modem when it
goes online or hangs up (I was told this was the physical switch inside the
modem making the noise)...Maybe they've fixed that by now but it doesn't
bug me too much anyways...

	The other problem is one that I was told exists on virtually ALL,
if not ALL, Hayes compatible external modems over 1200 baud...They do not
support switch 7 {or was it 11?}, the switch that determines dialing speed.
I think that may even be done by Hayes themselves nowadays.

	Hardly anyone mentiones that internal switch, but it is sort of
annoying that it is not existant anymore (as I already said, I think it's
nonexistant on most if not all external modems).

	Hope I helped you a little...

			-tuu