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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Where can I buy Telebit (or other modems) cheap?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 00:38:59 GMT
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In article <8377@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>Okay, well I think I'm going to buy a Telebit Trailblazer or T1000
>modem for my Macintosh II.  Telebits support all the low mundane
>speeds 2400 bps and below and if you run in PEP mode with another
>Telebit you can get up to 9600 for the T1000 and 19.2 for the Plus.
>Telebits are real popular so I shouldn't have too much problem being
>compatible at 9600 and above.  Besides... V.32 modems are fairly
>expensive.
>So where to buy one of these things brand new for real cheap?  Any
>recommendations?

 1. There is no such thing as a cheap Telebit.
 2. The USR Courier HST 14.4 modem is faster than a Telebit.
 3. Depending on your specific needs, in the BBS world there are
 far more HST's out there than Telebits.
 4. For the somewhere near the same $$ you can buy a USR HST dual Standard
 and get HST and V.32 compatability and still be faster than Telebit.
 5. The Telebit modems are notoriously hard to setup, they have more
 registers than I care to think about..

 Bottom line...if you want speed, get an HST...


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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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