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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 9600 Mod
Message-ID: <13974@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 16 Feb 89 03:12:52 GMT
References: <568072@vaxa.uwa.oz> <4035@alvin.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <4035@alvin.mcnc.org>, felstein@mcnc.org.UUCP (Bruce M. Felstein) wrote:

> I think that you will find that the most used modem for 9600
> baud communications in the United States is the US Robotics
> HST.

In the non-unix market probably so.  But certainly not in the unix
market.  I've only heard of one or two sites trying to run uucp over
the HST, and the results were horrible.  Interactive response with the
'blazer is good enough, though not instant.

> The Telebit has trouble connecting at other speeds from what
> I've seen.

Not true.  My 'blazer runs at > 9600bps all day, along with 2400bps
and some 1200bps traffic.  The HST and V.32 modems should have better
interactive "feel", but the 'blazer stomps both in terms of raw
throughput.

> USR is coming out with major modifications to the HST very shortly,
> although I'm not at liberty to say what they are, [...]

They already released that modem.  Now if only Telebit would release a
PEP/V.32 modem that supports SLIP.  With a half price deal, of course... :-)
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