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From: braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: hi speed modems in Germany
Message-ID: <4418@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 16:04:12 GMT
References: <4377@drivax.DRI <1445@altger.UUCP> <844@sering.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <844@sering.cwi.nl|  piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema) writes:
| Not entirely true: that's the case if both sides have
| the 4.0 software revision level; if either side (or
| both) have the 3.0 level it works just fine. Of course
| it suffers from the normal 3.0 drawback: very slow for
| interactive use; but it's fast in batch mode (like uucp).
| Supposedly Telebit has come up with a newer 4.x version
| that should have solved the problems of transatlantic
| links, while maintaining good interactive speed, but
| sofar I haven't seen any sign of that new release.

I have two TB+s that we bought during the December close out.  How does
this affect us (we are trying to set up links with the UK and Germany)?
How do I know which software version I have?  What, exactly, are the 
"problems of transatlantic links"?  Have I used up my monthly quota of
dumb questions yet?

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