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From: chiesa@netcom.UUCP (15)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: supra 2400 baud modem
Summary: Bought one in December
Message-ID: <40@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 00:20:11 GMT
References: <1896@vicorp.UUCP>
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Organization: NetCom Services  -  Public Access Unix System (408) 997-9175 guest
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In article <1896@vicorp.UUCP>, dale@vicorp.UUCP (Dale Nielsen) writes:
> ...  I see ads for a Supra 2400 baud external modem for
> $129.95 in magazines.  Does anyone out there have any experience
> with this modem?  Is it reliable or is it cheap junk?

I bought this very modem in December 1988 and am using it to compose this
message.  It is Hayes-compatible and all that, and does what it's supposed
to, by and large, but I feel as though it's more line-noise sensitive than,
say, the Atari SX212 (1200 baud) modem I was using previously.  I don't know
how much more line-noise-sensitivity to EXPECT at 2400 baud, but on Portal
for instance I occasionally get thousands and thousands of garbage charac-
ters, the source of which I have no clue to -- Portal, PC Pursuit (Telenet),
or the Modem...

I *DO* tend to lose data when reading text from local BBS systems at 2400,
so I only use it at 1200 on those systems; this was something of a disappoint-
ment when I first discovered it, but I've learned to live with it.  After
all, as above, I don't know whether the problem is MY modem, the BBS's modem,
the BBS software, my terminal software, etc. etc....  Portal works MUCH 
better at 2400 baud than do the local BBS's, so I'm inclined to blame the 
BBS software itself in that case...