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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: supra 2400 baud modem
Message-ID: <2284@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 19:07:29 GMT
References: <40@netcom.UUCP>
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <40@netcom.UUCP>, chiesa@netcom.UUCP (15) says:
$ Summary: Bought one in December
$ 
$ 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...

I've had one for about two months now and use it intensively. I feel
that it is great for a personal use modem, but I doubt that I would use
it it a production setting (for that I recommend the MultiTech 224E).

I've used it over the same lines to the same places as I have a Hayes
2400 and don't see a significant amount of increase in sensitivity 
to line noise. It's also a sturdy little unit.

I paid something like $170 in a store for it. If you can mail order it
for $130, grab it.


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