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From: chaney@ms.uky.edu (Daniel Chaney)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 2400 baud modem recommendations?
Message-ID: <11745@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 17:51:02 GMT
References: <1052@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> <18032@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: chaney@ms.uky.edu (Daniel Chaney)
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In article <18032@cup.portal.com> BOBC@cup.portal.com (ROBERT JOHN CHRISTIANSEN) writes:
>paid $149, but have seen them for less recently. There are some other 2400
>modems being offered out there at ridicuously low prices ($99) claiming MNP5
>support. What you get is a regular old 2400 bps modem with a terminal emulator
>software package supporting MNP...much inferior to being in the modem's own
>firmware.

I, too, caught this scam about 10 minutes before I ordered it.  In fact,
the software is not even invisible (ie, you couldn't run something in
front of their software)  This strikes me as rude and very misleading.
The salesperpeople that I talked to was very evasive but finally admitted
that yes, this program would make any 2400 baud modem act like MNP-equipped
  
In fact, file transfer capabilities were never mentioned in our talk.  If
they don't have that, why have MNP?



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